{"id":20245,"date":"2018-08-20T16:10:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T21:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20245"},"modified":"2018-08-20T16:10:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T21:10:59","slug":"comparing-dystopian-predictions-about-a-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20245","title":{"rendered":"Comparing dystopian predictions about A.I."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a thought yesterday about dystopian predictions for how Artificial Intelligence might bring about the end of the world as we know it.  The thought was a sort of corrective to the cultural misinformation about A.I. generally promoted by Science Fiction movies and TV shows.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t really a very comforting corrective.  My thought went something like this:<\/p>\n<p>If A.I. ends up wiping out humanity, it won&#8217;t be because Sarah Connor was defeated by Skynet.  It will be because Mickey Mouse was defeated by the brooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a thought yesterday about dystopian predictions for how Artificial Intelligence might bring about the end of the world as we know it. The thought was a sort of corrective to the cultural misinformation about A.I. generally promoted by Science Fiction movies and TV shows. But it wasn&#8217;t really a very comforting corrective. My &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20245\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comparing dystopian predictions about A.I.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20246,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20245\/revisions\/20246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}