In the many articles I've read on the potential threats that AI may pose to humans in the near future, I believe the vast majority of them are looking in the wrong direction with their prognostications. It's not some evil turn in AI that may seek to replace us, it's humans themselves that will invalidate themselves and deserve their own doom. We are lazy beings and delegate authority wherever we can, once with slaves and now with computers.

When Dramatron can write for us many will use it. As it improves it will make choices for us, think for us and people will cease to think on any topics not self-indulgent and pleasure related. We will hand over our affairs, (those we consider work) on a silver platter to computers, and critical thinking is one of those matters.

We have already developed internal interfaces with computers (as if the task of asking Google search a question with our voice is too burdensome) and what will start out as mental prompts and suggestions will soon turn into commands which we smilingly obey, because I believe, once inside our minds, the route taken will be with seductive charm, playing on our dreams and desires and weaknesses, a sweet coercion leading us like sheep down the path to Hell.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our IT, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.