Stewart Sweeney‘s essay brings to mind Professor Carl Sagan’s warning in his book of some 30 years ago The Demon-Haunted World:
“We’ve arranged a global civilisation in which most crucial elements – transportation, communications, and all other industries; agriculture, medicine, education, entertainment, protecting the environment; and even the key democratic institution of voting – profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”
Will AI be the straw that breaks our backs?