Part 1/11:
Rethinking Humanity's Fears: The Real Monsters in the Age of AI
Throughout history, humanity has been haunted by fears of destructive technologies, from the Holocaust and Rwandan genocide to the Cime Rouge atrocities and countless wars claiming over a billion lives. These dark chapters reveal a stark truth: the greatest atrocities weren't committed by machines or algorithms but by human beings. Yet, today, society's anxiety about artificial intelligence (AI) turning rogue persists, often centered around dystopian fears of killer robots or sentient machines gone awry. But what if this fear is misplaced? What if the true danger lies not in AI itself but in the human impulses we project onto it?