Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Going to Take Over

AI explains how humans will remain the center of everything

It’s easy to look at the world around us and think that nothing has changed in a millennium. The same people are governing our countries, we’re still putting food on the table with farms and factories, and smartphones have replaced fax machines as the latest technological breakthroughs. But it’s also easy to look at history — especially recent history — and see how wrong we are about what today will look like tomorrow. Just consider how most Americans imagined their lives would be in 2017 when they were children: I don’t mean their specific dreams (I know plenty of people who dreamed of being astronauts), but rather their general sense of what life would be like once they became adults. Most likely, you’d imagine living in a country where your job was secure; where your house was paid off; where your retirement fund grew steadily thanks to some kind of automatic plan set up by your employer or government; maybe even where you had time left over after work each day for hobbies or vacations or just “relaxing.”

That was essentially my parents’ vision too when they were growing up — though they hadn’t yet been born by then! They both grew up during World War II, when things weren’t so great at home because so many men went off to fight…