Funny how science fiction keeps becoming reality

By Stelios Colocassides

What began as a business tool, then an everyday convenience, is now starting to resemble something far more unsettling: a force that may soon decide outcomes that humans no longer control.

Artificial intelligence is no longer operating in the background. It has stepped into the limelight as a force of nature shaping economies, power and human relevance itself. Depending on who you ask, it opens the gates to extraordinary progress or irreversible loss and chaos.