How Dangerous Is AI, and Will It Really Take Your Job?

How Dangerous Is AI, and Will It Really Take Your Job?
Artificial intelligence is trying to learn how you think and respond so that your behaviors can be better predicted and manipulated. Alexander Limbach/Shutterstock
John Mac Ghlionn
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Artificial intelligence (AI), we’re told, will probably destroy humanity. Then again, those in the know tell us that it probably won’t. One thing AI will definitely do, though, is take our jobs, leaving a mass of unemployed, utterly useless individuals in its wake. Right?
John Mac Ghlionn
John Mac Ghlionn
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John Mac Ghlionn is a researcher and essayist. He covers psychology and social relations, and has a keen interest in social dysfunction and media manipulation. His work has been published by the New York Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, Newsweek, National Review, and The Spectator US, among others.
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