MUMBAI, April 19 -- The artificial intelligence company, OpenAI, recently demonstrated a neural network that created news articles so convincing and so capable of emulating human journalists that the organisation's fear of its misuse to sway elections and terrorise stock markets led it to restrict distribution of the code underlying it. At the same time, stories about robots stealing our jobs and driverless cars killing humans stoke our fears that an Artificial Intelligence (AI) apocalypse is nigh.
Whilst these fears have a sound basis, the immediate risk to society from AI comes not from robots or amazingly intelligent machines, but from the inexorable creep of artificial intelligence into our lives. In codifying in it the very processes ...