Actually Idiotic – Nick Hall – Medium

Allow me if you will to begin with a short piece of speculative fiction. Artificial intelligence is a dumb idea. First is the AI found in self-driving cars, Siri, and probably every VC pitch for the next few years, which could also be called "computer programs that use statistics and lots of data." This represents a marginal step forward in humans' capacity to channel our creative output through a machine that returns a somehow preferable version of it, now irrevocably owned by whoever owns the machine. We will need to regulate the fuck out of this AI, just as we have industry and consumer products, because such things kill, displace and disenfranchise people in the absence of politically determined limits on their operation.