Honestly, I’m not afraid of AI. Instead, I’m terrified of that step before - which does not yet have a name - in which sophisticated bots generate a news bubbl

Honestly, I’m not afraid of AI. Instead, I’m terrified of that step before - which does not yet have a name - in which sophisticated bots generate a news bubble (whether real or fake may not even matter that much) that leads us to destroy ourselves. Think about it - the riots shortly after the election, the cries of fake news (on both sides of he political spectrum), the growing gap between the left and right, etc. That’s enough to get us off the rails in the US. Now imagine what that would do in a country with a much more fragile democracy, or a split religious population. Truly, that is more frightening. If you’ve ever seen what one person can do to another under strained circumstances, you know what I mean.