As the tech industry marches toward ever more dazzling artificial intelligence technology, there’s one unavoidable question for humanity: Is this good news, or bad news?
In Silicon Valley, there’s a small but powerful group of people who believe it could be very, very bad news — and that AI, if not handled correctly, could wipe out humanity within a couple decades. There’s also a crowd who thinks our AI future will be amazing — bringing about untold future capabilities, abundance and utopia.