Be vigilant

Sophia, the worlds most advanced humanoid released to date was granted an honorary citizenship a few months ago by Saudi Arabia. In a move that set the net flooding with awe and dismay, this act probably triggered the first step towards recognising artificial intelligence being in the room and not at door step. The UN joined to recognise Sophia as the world's first UN Innovation Champion by UNDP. While these moves were music to many, artificial intelligence is raising a lot of divided opinions across the best of brains in science and technology. A quote widely in circulation on the social media on Einstein's premonition of a world having a generation of idiots may have its fair share of laughs. Einstein had indeed written a letter to his friend, psychiatrist Otto Juliusburger, in 1948 where he believed that the abominable deterioration of ethical standards stemmed primarily from the mechanisation and depersonalisation of our lives, a disastrous byproduct of science and technology.