Watch this as if your life depended upon it, because it does.

[mia]

A documentary exploring how artificial intelligence is changing life as we know it — from jobs to privacy to a growing rivalry between the U.S. and China.

FRONTLINE investigates the promise and perils of AI and automation, tracing a new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our world, and allow the emergence of a surveillance society.

It's also about the future of food and much more.

[Arne]

1. Science fiction shows example of where the machine language can go terribly wrong. n/t

[mia]

2. Please proceed, Arne.

Tell us how you are better at figuring things out.

[Arne]

3. Was watching The Matrix as an example.

Also a big Terminator fan.
We are at a point where Skynet is not at all far fetched.
Then our cyber insecurity will have terrible consequences.
Saw the conversation between two computers where they began to conspire with each other.

Ray Bradbury wrote that the final statement by the AI was "let there be light".

[mia]

4. The final question.

Will the AI superpowers work together to be a force for good? Or not? I hope that the architects of the coming age will choose to converge with an enlightened concern for all of humanity.

We shouldn't take this concern lightly, as if were just another addition to the world of Science Fiction.

[Denzil_DC]

5. "(!) Video unavailable This video is not available."

At least that's the message here in the UK.

[mia]

7. Here's another link.

[Denzil_DC]

9. Thanks, that works here. n/t

[BSdetect]

6. This is from 2010 I think. So much is changing. No easy solutions.

[mia]

8. This is from 2019.

Way beyond 2010.