AI 'Robot Lawyer' to Defend Actual Traffic Tickets in Court

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1. During my storm-imposed isolation last week

I managed to "read" (ie, listen to) some books about AI, one of my favorites being Brian Christian's "The Most Human Human" about the time he participated in a Turing Test competition, a test designed to differentiate AI from humans in a chat format (think: GPT3).

He spent much of the book exploring "what it means to be human" and making a strong case that, contrary to many people's fears about AI displacing humans from the workforce (which, of course will happen), our current system forces multitudes of human workers to behave like robots, and that properly reassigning such tasks to *actual* robots/AI will actually be a very human-liberating shift. He describes how he envisions that world, and it makes loads of sense.

Anyway, there's room for appropriately-deployed AI in our society, imho. Not sure about the specific case here, but if a job can be algorithematized, then it probably means a human shouldn't be doing it anyway.

(Notwithstanding the whole issue of the economics involved.)

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2. AI is truly a fascinating technological development ...

My son recently introduced me to Chat GPT and it is absolutely mind boggling to an old guy like me (75).
But although AI has unlimited potential for improving our lives, my primary concern is when AI becomes superintelligent, self-aware, and capable of controlling us instead of us controlling it, what then?
What are your thoughts?