Will AI Kill You?

How to think about AI during a very, very weird time. Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. It’s an exceptionally difficult time for the average person to try to follow artificial intelligence, a field that has seen explosive advancement in recent years. Making matters worse, those explosive advances might—and there’s no non-alarmist way to say this—kill each and every one of us. That’s a very controversial claim. Jesse Singal is a contributing writer at The Dispatch, a cohost of the Blocked and Reported podcast, and the author of the Singal-Minded newsletter. A former senior editor and writer-at-large at New York Magazine, his work has appeared in outlets like the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Economist, and the Boston Globe. He is the author of The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills, and is presently working on a book about youth gender medicine. More Monday Essays