AI won't kill you, you'll just stop being human

AI won't kill you, you'll just stop being human
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Dystopian fiction is a personal favourite so I've read my fair share of stories about ill-intentioned robots. And I've appreciated watching "I, Robot", "Artificial Intelligence", and even "M3GAN". However, most of these stories are based on the idea of humanoid robots or other forms of AI driven creatures and interactions with humans. Rather, I think the risk with AI is that everything just stops being human.

Because you'll get up in the morning and put on the clothes that AI designed, then AI shopped for you and shipped to you, after showing you how they look on an AI model.

You'll have AI written music playing in the background while your digital picture frame scrolls AI designed pictures. Your AI will brew a coffee knowing you're up now, picking a roast it knows you'll like. So you can sip it while you read the AI written news. The news isn't great, as AI guided drones have struck in Slovakia from the Russian-held southeast of Poland.

Then you can get into your car, driven by AI, allowing you not to have to look up from your phone where you scroll social media and watch AI generated videos of sports updates, celebrity gossip, politics, weather.

You arrive at your new job. You used to teach English as a Second Language courses to adult learners but now AI does real time translation and interpretation so no one learns languages anymore. You're now a hairdresser, where you use AI models to help your customers choose a haircut but at least you get to handle the scissors and hair dye.

After work you might go to the library where they are screening AI written poetry or maybe play some online boardgames against the AI, games designed by AI with AI generated artwork. Normally you would go for a bike ride with your neighbour but she lost her job in publishing and hasn't been able to afford to replace her broken chain.

You decide to go straight home because you forgot to cancel your food delivery of an AI selected meal for dinner. Your car has driven itself to the shop because it noticed it was leaking fluid at the front, but it sent you a rideshare vehicle to get home. Home to your AI designed house where your AI guided robot has spent the day picking the weeds from your garden.

You, like all your neighbours, spend the 4 hours between dinner and bedtime staring at AI content on your phone. You fall asleep to your favourite AI generated podcast.

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