AI is a creature of capitalism, and it will upend our politics. Third in a series on AI--read the first, on how we could lose our minds to AI, here and the second, on a new Turing Test for the 21st century, here.

What should worry us most about artificial intelligence: losing our jobs to cheaper labor or losing our lives to killer robots? The real threat may lie in yet another danger: losing our minds.

I generally expect better from the American Interest than this article. The fact of the matter is we've heard this argument re-emerge every few decades and it's always been wrong. Our modern fear that robots/AI/automation will steal all the jobs fits a classic script. Nearly 500 years ago, Queen Elizabeth I cited the same fear when she denied an English inventor named William Lee a patent for an automated knitting contraption. Did you know that Keynes predicted that automation would result in a 15 hours/week work week back in the 1930s?

Russia's Ministry of Defence has posted what it called "irrefutable proof" of the US aiding so-called Islamic State - but one of the images was actually taken from a video game. The ministry claimed the image showed an IS convoy leaving a Syrian town last week aided by US forces. Instead, it came from the smartphone game AC-130 Gunship Simulator: Special Ops Squadron. The ministry said an employee had mistakenly attached the photo. The Conflict Intelligence Team fact-checking group said the other four provided were also errors, taken from a June 2016 video which showed the Iraqi Air Force attacking IS in Iraq.