Having been introduced to an end-game scenario for AI with James Barrat's Our Final Invention in 2013, I've been obsessed with finding optimism in its development. I failed. Allow me to explain.
As a marketer of 20+ years, I play with human psychology. I know firsthand how easily we can be manipulated. And since 2013, I've spent hundreds and hundreds of hours reading about AI and countless more leveraging it for work, interacting with it, and thinking about it. I have come upon what I believe to be the inevitable outcome, and it's not far off.
Humanity has seen a decline in social interactions and a rise in loneliness, isolation, and distrust. This dramatic... (read 562 more words →)
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