Will AI become God? That’s the wrong question.

It’s hard to know what to think about AI.

It’s easy to imagine a future in which chatbots and research assistants make almost everything we do faster and smarter. It’s equally easy to imagine a world in which those same tools take our jobs and upend society. Which is why, depending on who you ask, AI is either going to save the world or destroy it. 

What are we to make of that uncertainty?

Jaron Lanier is a digital philosopher and the author of several bestselling books on technology.