AI

        The recent calls for alarm by some tech workers about the threat of artificial intelligence are 100% correct. Even those who 'program'  AI and set it in motion do not understand how it works and arrives at some of the conclusions it does. When that capability outpaces human intelligence at a pace of 'thought' and 'innovation' well beyond human capabilities...it is reasonable to question what Pandora box we have opened and whether there is any way to control  it.  Like every other scientific advance, technology can be used for either 'good' or 'evil', but as  history has shown with previous human inventions,  AI too is being weaponized by human beings; those threats are frightening to any sane person. On just a common laptop AI can devise thousands of new toxic molecules that could poison humanity.  AI flying a simulation jet can outperform any experienced, top ace human pilot. In time, maybe artificial intelligence will suggest solutions to the very problems it creates, and help us solve the problems we have created. Maybe it's lack of 'feelings' for self preservation will be more ruthless and it will destroy itself, or us, or both. Those are some of

the unknowns the tech people are concerned about.