This writing is another example of anthropocentricist hubris. It doesn't really matter to us humans if "artificial life" AGI agents can/will exist at all or no

This writing is another example of anthropocentricist hubris. It doesn't really matter to us humans if "artificial life" AGI agents can/will exist at all or not, it's a MacGuffin canard. The greater impact is that many forms of narrow AI/ML, with some hype deserved and some not, are and will be used with minimal regulation to upheave society in profound ways like the cotton gin, steam engine, transistor, internet, and smartphone all in one to impoverish [mb]illions of workers and make trillionaires. In the absences of corrective measures, the present course is running towards ever more grotesque inequality, deprivation, corruption, and tyranny. Flock cameras' "ALPR" object and people classifier mass surveillance and likely misuse by intelligence services, police, and data brokers is just one other example. Hidden socioeconomic "social credit"-like data brokering is already selectively benefitting and sabotaging people by routine discrimination they're unable to inquire about.