Are You Afraid? 3 Reasons Why AI Scares Us

A general artificial intelligence may be far in the future, but we have reasons to be extremely careful. For some years now, important public figures have raised concerns about the potential dangers of AI. The discourse revolves around the idea of superintelligent AI freeing itself from our control. Some skeptics argue that the scenario of AI "enslaving" us is so distantly dystopic that it isn't worth considering. For instance, Gary Marcus ridiculed it saying that "it's as if people in the fourteenth century were worrying about traffic accidents, when good hygiene might have been a whole lot more helpful."