Please also read our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, which became effective December 20, 2019. If a simple academic program from the ’60s could affect people so strongly, how will our escalating relationship with artificial intelligences operated for profit change us? There’s great money to be made in engineering AI that does more than just respond to our questions, but plays an active role in bending our behaviors toward greater predictability. But we shouldn’t let ourselves get so caught up that we neglect to examine the potential consequences