How ballroom dance can help us avoid a dystopian future

Dystopian narratives about AI abound. Will the bots take over? Are we doomed as a human species? While I do not have a utopian outlook about our tech-saturated future, I do wonder what we could start doing today, in our present state, to course-correct these calamitous narratives. So, earlier this year I began conducting an informal thought experiment with approximately 50 people. I asked them to engage in the following pre-mortem exercise: “Imagine it is 10 years into the future, and the dy...