Fighting Against Human Obsolescence – Rob Peters – Medium

The past 3 years have revealed troubling predictions about AI from very concerned smart people. Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking collaborated with 1,000 AI experts back in January to produce an open letter emphasizing the'potential pitfalls' of building'superhuman' artificial intelligence. Hollywood productions also fanned the fires of anxiety. From Ex Machina to Avengers: Age of Ultron, box-office hits played on the thread of AI with bad intent and robots challenging man. But, while headlines from the media and science fiction movies binged on this catastrophic theme, businesses developing AI pressed on to silently and dramatically, disrupt the business topography.