Those Dangerous Genius'

 

So now we have loosed the untamable AI in the world.  Advantages impress, but here sit those creators with dire warnings.  When someone actually begs for their creation to be regulated, you can smell real trouble.

What an aimless genius who would threaten us with this Frankenstein!  The mad glee of “it’s alive!” brings triumph and menace – all at once.

It seems no one strolls the hallways of these inventive folk and asks “yes, but should we build it?”  Does the light of these creations hold a treacherous dark side we have not explored?

It brings to mind those Facebook youths with no historical references to chill them about what bad people can do with their handicraft.  To pose a “what could Goebbels do with such tech power” question simply echoes in their unschooled skulls.

And those who developed neonics surely dodged any questions about the threat of killing the bees, insects, and our spring birdsong.  Perhaps the possibility was never on the meeting agendas. 

Is this the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper?