Daniel Dennett: 'Why civilisation is more fragile than we realised'

there's nothing new under the sun

I foresee an imminent exploitation of AI for a cornucopia of deceptive outbound lead generation pipeline processes, essentially fabricating mirages of nonexistent personas chatting up real humans in a myriad of ways perhaps finishing with real human closers.

And in a darker side, I see new cults and social movements being shepherded by unknown malicious individuals and state actors. While Roger Ailes lacked AI content generation and robot sockpuppets for the malicious manufacturing of gradual sentiment manipulation of a populace, it is reasonable to assume there is far greater potential for masses of ignorant people lacking in knowledge and education are now more vulnerable than ever to being tricked into committing ever greater heinous acts.

There are already international enslaved scammer boiler rooms targeting American gig economy providers and customers such as the case of the elderly man who murdered an Uber driver, but adding AI just automates the process.

This is a thought terminating cliche.

At the start of WWII almost everyone was worried about the old dangers and hiding behind battle lines on a map, only to be flattened by high speed mechanized warfare.

The old dangers never go away, we just keep upping the ante by adding new dangers on top of it.

In some way you have a point