People in Texas sounded off on AI job displacement, with half of people who spoke to Fox News convinced that the tech will rob them of work. On a crisp autumn day in 1992, President George H.W. Bush's reelection campaign arrived at my hometown of Wixom, Michigan. Speaking from the rear of a train, President Bush deservedly extolled his achievement of cementing the end to the Cold War through his Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (SALT), which eased people's fear of nuclear war after an unnerving decades-long arms race. The nuclear narrative traces back to 1945 when J. Robert Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project yielded the world's first atomic bomb. It took more than a decade for the world to come together to create the International Atomic Energy Agency to address nuclear safety and security, but by that time, it was too late.

A tech mogul has described the sprint to perfect artificial intelligence (AI) as the 21st century's nuclear arms race. Kevin Baragona was one of the more than 1,000 leading experts who signed an open letter on The Future of Life Institute, calling for a pause on the'dangerous race' to develop ChatGPT-like AI. Like the invention of the atomic bomb in the 1940s, Baragona told DailyMail.com'Many

Every time an AI article finds its way to social media there's hundreds of people invoking the terrifying specter of "SKYNET." SKYNET is a fictional artificial general intelligence that's responsible for the creation of the killer robots from the Terminator film franchise. It was a scary vision of AI's future until deep learning came along and big tech decided to take off its metaphorical belt and really give us something to cry about. At least the people fighting the robots in The Terminator film franchises get to face a villain they can see and shoot at. And that makes it difficult to explain why, based on what's happening now, the real future might be even scarier than the one from those killer robot movies.

Just what artificial intelligence will be able to do in the future is almost impossible to know.