What worries me about AI – François Chollet – Medium

Disclaimer: These are my own personal views. I do not speak for my employer. If you quote this article, please have the honesty to present these ideas as what they are: personal, speculative opinions, to be judged on their own merits. If you were around in the 1980s and 1990s, you may remember the now-extinct phenomenon of "computerphobia". I have personally witnessed it a few times as late as the early 2000s -- as personal computers were introduced into our lives, in our workplaces and homes, quite a few people would react with anxiety, fear, or even aggressivity. While some of us were fascinated by computers and awestruck by the potential they could glimpse in them, most people didn't understand them. They felt alien, abstruse, and in many ways, threatening.