We should fear AI

This round's topic: We should fear AI

AI is all up in your business. It knows when you’ve been sleeping. It knows when you’re awake. It knows things about you that would bring a family bingo night to an awkward halt. And there’s new ways it's being used every day; AI may soon be used in judicial sentencing, in medical diagnoses and to care for the elderly. AI is able to be programmed out of the subjectivities and biases of us fallible humans, and it eats far less crumpets.

Some things about AI are simply annoying; like the pro-Russia twitter bots liking your posts (and never buying tickets to your shows) and the weird social media algorithms that decide to start advertising you menopause remedies or combine harvester repair kits. But then there are the scarier moments; when you’re reading or looking at something that should be made by a…