There's a nice article about AI in the WSJ from the author of "Sapiens". My three main takeaways from it (almost everything you ever wanted to know about AI but were afraid, scared or too shy to ask) --Harari said:
 

1. For the first time in tens of thousands of years, humanity has competition.

The most important thing to know about AI is that it is not a tool, it is an agent, in the sense that it can make decisions independently of us. It can invent new ideas. It can learn and change by itself. All previous human inventions, whether the printing press or the atom bomb, are tools that empower us.

They need us because a printing press cannot write books by itself and it cannot decide which books to print. An atom bomb cannot invent the next, more powerful bomb. And an atom bomb cannot decide what to attack. An AI weapon can decide by itself which target to attack and design the next generation of weapons by itself.

2. One analogy to keep in mind—we now have this immigration crisis in the U.S., in Europe, elsewhere.

Lots of people are worried about immigrants. Why are people worried about immigrants? There are three main things that come to people’s mind: They will take our jobs. They come with different cultural ideas; they will change our culture. They may have political agendas; they might try to take over the country politically.

Now you can think about the AI revolution as simply a wave of immigration of millions and billions of AI immigrants that will take people’s jobs, that have very different cultural ideas, and that might try to gain some kind of political power.

And these AI immigrants, these digital immigrants, they don’t need visas. They don’t cross the sea in some rickety boat in the middle of the night. They come at the speed of light.

3. AI learns from human behavior.

Dishonesty among leaders may lead to AI mirroring such behavior.

From <https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-yuval-noah-harari-18f82d7d...>

I am reminded of Ray Barone looking out the window and saying, "Come on comet!"

Noel