> The problem is not algorithms. The problem is the people training AI, and the people they are trained to imitate. The people training life-critical systems are college dropouts and JavaScript developers with something called a “nanodegree” in self-driving cars. If you’re lucky, maybe some of them have an actual degree in statistics or something. Whether out of ignorance or malice, the developers of AI will make mistakes in our headlong pursuit of autonomy. Look, all I know how to do is tell stories. And it seems as though I can only do that with any sort of significant efficacy on the order of about once every few years, when the need, from my perspective at least, truly arises. I mean, is that even useful or helpful anymore? I’d like to think it is--but maybe that’s just the AI talking to me in my sleep again. (2017)