I’d look at the date, assume it was phishing or a virus… and delete it without opening it. This is really pretty basic internet safety. Who opens emails from strange sources in this day and age?

Don’t need VR. Jim carry simulated it well in Pet Detective

“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind”

“Dune”, Frank Herbert

Mr Herbert was exploring these ideas decades ago in science fiction that portrayed the aftermath of AI and other associated technologies causing havoc on human civilization.

There are conversations we need to be having now about who and what we want to be…and how our technologies fit into our future... and how to channel them positively. Which ai future do we want… and how do we get there?

Asimov? Daneel olivaw Roddenberry? Lt Cmdr. data Herbert? Omnius Lucas - r2d2?

The list goes on… and includes visions we don’t want. We need authors to be writing now to give the technologists a vision to discuss… to dream…

Only if our development process (those new jobs I talked about) creates AIs that do so, and the certifiers & regulators permit it (more new jobs)… . Further… Since corporations are built around making money, It is puzzling to me to think any corporation would deliberately develop an AI that would decimate its markets. No… the Deus Ex Machina that people imagine AI to be could only be dreamed up by the likes of an evil scientist of the likes of Heinze Doofenschmirtz. And he always had the good sense to include a “Self destruct button” in his creations.

We’ve already begin the process of thinking about how to manage AI in our culture and economy. That’s what’s produced works of art such as Asimov’s Robots novels, or the Terminator Movies… Shelly’s Frankenstein (the book is best!), and even Sir Terry Pratchett’s “Raising Money (where golems where a stand in for AI). I suspect we’ve got a few decades before AI begins to the change the culture. Plenty of time for the Developers and Certifiers to be guided by regulators to decide how to put AI to work… and plenty of time for people to create new products around AI that will drive a new revolution.

I think there is plenty of time given how many problems are already popping up in even the crudest of attempts at applying the primitive AI we have now. Self driving cars are so fallible that some states are debating banning them for the time being. Lawyers are laughing at suggestions that chatGPT has any chance of replacing them. Students are discovering that chatGPT is leading to them being charged with cheating and/or plagiarism. Even the new digital art AIs are being challenged with charges of intellectual property theft, given that they were trained on copyrighted images without permission. Just sorting out the legal and liability issues will slow AI down to a manageable pace.

AI is coming… and yet the question isnt “How can it be stopped?” Rather the question is “How will this change things…and what can be done with the opportunity.” These are the same questions that got asked when the automobile was created… and then later when the internet was introduced. The questions occur every time humans are confronted with change, because we dont like it… though we really do need it to survive. Who knows… perhaps applying AI to the problems that have plagued scientists for the past few decades will crack the problem of climate warming or cancer….

Yes. It will also transform jobs… and will also create far more new jobs applying, maintaining, developing, certifying, repairing ai’s. Just to name a few.