Michael J. Trotten on artificial intelligence's potential pluses and minuses. He concludes with this: "So what do we actually know? That AI is coming faster than almost anyone realizes, that the pace of change will accelerate, and that nobody—not computer researchers, not economists, not historians, and definitely not me—knows where we’re heading. But for what it’s worth, I see artificial intelligence as something like fire: it will warm us, and it will burn us." 

His article posted on City Journal is available here.