Caitlin Johnstone has posted a warning about AI:

[https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-want-you-relying-on-artificial]

They Want You Relying On Artificial Intelligence So That You Will Lose Your Natural Intelligence

Even E M Forster did not imagine AI in his prescient story The Machine Stops (1909) but in light of Caitlin's warning, what will happen when the machine stops?

Interesting Literature says:

[https://interestingliterature.com/2021/02/em-forster-the-machine-stops-summary-analysis/]

Forster himself wrote ‘The Machine Stops’ as a response to one of H. G. Wells’s utopian novels (probably A Modern Utopia, published in 1905).

Forster responded by offering a dystopian vision of mankind’s future, a bleak analysis of our over-reliance upon, and eventual subordination to, modern technology.

First, a brief summary of the plot of ‘The Machine Stops’. In the future, mankind dwells underground where they rely on the Machine for all their needs. Everyone owns a book, referred to as ‘the Book’, which is not a bible but rather a sort of instruction manual telling people about the Machine.

AI is clearly hastening man's 'eventual subordination to, modern technology'.

But what is even more frightening than everyone living alone underground with every physical need managed by the machine is that in our AI future, even our minds, a last resort of our essential humanity, will be hijacked and managed by AI.

AI has some great use cases. For example, training it on a million images of cancer tumours and then feeding it yours for an opinion on the probability of whether you have cancer and what stage it is. That's great.

But the gradual takeover of our minds by timesaving AI 'helpers' and 'agents' is not.

Think on't as Councillor Duxbury said.