In his recent Substack article, Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut lays out a series of mostly sobering predictions about artificial intelligence and its likely impact on our lives. The article is entitled, In our scramble to win the AI race against China, we risk losing ourselves. 

In short, he is not hopeful that AI’s benefits will outweigh its potential drawbacks.  Murphy writes that “a fraud is being perpetuated on the American people and our pliant, gullible political leaders. The leaders of the artificial intelligence industry in the United States are rapacious in their desire to build wealth and power, comfortable knowingly putting aside the destructive power of their product, and claim that any meaningful regulation of AI in America will allow China to leapfrog the United States to control the world’s AI infrastructure.”



What is most insidious in my eyes aren’t the geopolitics of AI; it is something much more personal to all of us ...