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What is it that defines us as humans, and how are these technologies going to change that? And the AI world, in your novel, is something that I think is - of course, no one can predict anything about AI because it's advancing at such a tremendous rate. But it strikes me as something more in the distant future.
But I sense that AI is already impacting our lives in huge ways. You mentioned some of the good ways, for example, the use of AI in medicine and science. It's going to transform the way we can analyse large data sets and glean conclusions from them. But with that comes a bunch of risks. And I feel that, sometimes, we're sleepwalking into a world where we don't know what's going to happen. And if we don't make the right sorts of decisions, that could be a problem.
AI, at the moment, perhaps doesn't understand human empathy enough to write a novel that would actually make you laugh and cry, or make Fred laugh and cry. But I think, when that happens, I think the least of our worries is about whether I'm going to lose a job or not, because I think that means that AI will be able to run political campaigns and will be able to identify what the political movements that are on the rise, will be able to identify the emotions that are there, the anger or the frustration or the hopes that are there in society. In other words, don't worry about AI writing great novels. Worry about AI writing our constitutions.
