ABSTRACT
The field of artificial intelligence development is experiencing a productive period of incredible progress and innovation, and any consequences, whether positive or otherwise, will fall on the designers’ shoulders. As such, the onus is on us to shape technological advancement in such a way as to mitigate any foreseeable and, as much as possible, unforeseeable catastrophic events. After several boom and bust periods, artificial intelligence (AI) is now primed to be one of our most critical advancements as well as one of our most dangerous ones. The impending emergence and proliferation of AI into the public sphere will assuredly result in an encompassing revolution of sorts—one that will affect society and the ways in which both humans and nonhumans work and communicate, one that promises to change our quotidian lives by relieving us of menial tasks, and one that will fundamentally change how humans perceive ourselves, others, and the world—and vice versa.
