Who's afraid of the big bad wolf.

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Who's afraid of the big bad wolf. The wolf in question is AI, (artificial intelligence). 
Much of what I write in my blogs questions the changes in society. the way society has become much less defined, where the mix of norms and cultures lead to confusion in all but the diehard advocate of that, (as yet unachieved), multicultural state. Who's apostles speak of a seamless interaction with each other, but who are blind to the variances which environmental pressures bring. That utopian world were compassion irradicates prejudice. 
Perhaps looming over a not too distant horizon, the ultimate utility, Artificial Intelligence will circumvent all our fears and doubts by making "us" irrelevant.
What started as gadgets to assist us is rapidly progressing into gadgets to replace us. Given the speed with which a computer can learn to replicate a function and store the experience and therefore gaining an  ability to judge when that knowledge is appropriate. Not through trial and error, but by assembling, in nano seconds an appraisal or analysis based on previously assimilated experiences (much like we humans do) of what the next best action should be. But unlike humans, 'Artificial Intelligence'  is undeterred by any moral or ethical misgivings which so hinder our human response time. 
We already have the AI conditioning it in our use of the smartphone to "help" us navigate our way around. Many of us have surrendered ourselves to the 'sat nav' as being better than we are at knowing where we are and where we need to go. The emotion of trying to understand our environment, its tricks and complexity is substituted by the bland switch off of all our human emotional or predictive self analysis. We are 'wet nursed' by a machine algorithm and find the psychological impact of this "help" enough to comply eagerly to the next range of gadgets which will take over our cognisance. Surrendering our human awareness, our perceptive ability, and our conscious apprehension will inevitably lead us into becoming zombies. Like children reliant on their parent, we will give up more and more of that human spirit, the spirit of endeavour which has been our defining characteristic.
The time will arrive when we humans become so in thrall to living a computer aided life that the computer itself will rationalises 'our value' to it !!
This is not science fiction but science fact. 
The AI decision will not be a moral one, simply an appraisal of the cost benefit of having us around.
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