Clara Labs: How science fiction is training us to ignore the real threats posed by AI

CEOs of artificial intelligence companies usually seek to minimize the threats posed by AI, rather than play them up. But on this week's episode of Converge, Clara Labs co-founder and CEO Maran Nelson tells us there is real reason to be worried about AI - and not for the reasons that science fiction has trained us to expect. Movies like Her and Ex Machina depict a near future in which anthropomorphic artificial intelligences manipulate our emotions and even commit violence against us. But threats like Ex Machina's Ava will require several technological breakthroughs before they're even remotely plausible, Nelson says.The post How science fiction is training us to ignore the real threats posed by AI appeared first on Techtly.