Art imitates life, hysteria imitates art. Your write-up today made me think about how fears are harnessed.
In modern imagination, over the last few decades, there have been seminal films that have used AI as the protagonist in their plot structures to highlight how a higher than human intelligence outsmarts humans or outright destroys mankind. Some prominent films that come to mind are 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, Ex Machina, and of course the highly popular Terminator and Matrix series. These masterful stories about existential threats and amazing displays of post apocalyptic worlds are part of collective human memory.
Politicians included, these are the references that most of have to work with when we hear about AI, helping us shout down tech advancements with rules and control.
Anyone who watched the unbelievable Tom Cruise caper, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, released on 19th June 2023 could be forgiven for thinking that wicked AI could be harnessed in a submarine and controlled with a key. Wait, there is a part 2 coming out soon.
Hysteria sells. What better way to express the fear of the unknown and FOMO.
Sci-fi has been a key reason driving current premature concerns around AI. Both in books and movies. But as you said, they’re so masterful in their story telling when done well!
Art imitates life, hysteria imitates art. Your write-up today made me think about how fears are harnessed.
In modern imagination, over the last few decades, there have been seminal films that have used AI as the protagonist in their plot structures to highlight how a higher than human intelligence outsmarts humans or outright destroys mankind. Some prominent films that come to mind are 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, Ex Machina, and of course the highly popular Terminator and Matrix series. These masterful stories about existential threats and amazing displays of post apocalyptic worlds are part of collective human memory.
Politicians included, these are the references that most of have to work with when we hear about AI, helping us shout down tech advancements with rules and control.
Anyone who watched the unbelievable Tom Cruise caper, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, released on 19th June 2023 could be forgiven for thinking that wicked AI could be harnessed in a submarine and controlled with a key. Wait, there is a part 2 coming out soon.
Hysteria sells. What better way to express the fear of the unknown and FOMO.
Sci-fi has been a key reason driving current premature concerns around AI. Both in books and movies. But as you said, they’re so masterful in their story telling when done well!