Are We Worrying Too Much About AI?

In 370 BC, Socrates worried that writing would weaken memory and allow ‘the pretence of understanding, rather than true understanding’

In the 1440s, the printing press faced violent opposition: scribes' guilds destroyed machines and chased book merchants out of towns, fearing job losses and the spread of dangerous ideas.

In the 1850s, people thought the telephone would cause deafness, and that railway travel was so dangerous that a school board condemned trains as ‘a device of Satan to lead immortal souls to hell’

In the Early 1900s, the sewing machine sparked fears that women’s economic independence would disrupt family structures and society.

Is AI just another one on the list? Or is it different?

TBC.