Myth-busting AI won't work

People have myths because that is one kind of response to the unknown. If you take away their myths, you may leave them with nothing. That's why a very well-intentioned, thoughtful effort of scholars over at the Mozilla dot org foundation to debunk nonsense about artificial intelligence is bound to fail. The new website, AI Myths, purports to debunk pernicious lies and mischaracterizations about artificial intelligence, such as the notion that AI has agency, or that "superintelligence is coming soon." What the very astute authors have failed to confront is that people have no idea what AI is.