Street Talk

Question of the Week

Is the future of technologyโ€”AI, robots, geneticsโ€”exciting or frightening?

Estrella Arteaga, 27, UCSC Grad student

It’s unpredictable, but itโ€™s exciting to see what we come up with to help us. A chatbot as a friend freaks me out, it destroys the purpose of social media, but some people might benefit from it. โ€”ESTRELLA


Adan Arteaga, 27, Software engineer

Itโ€™s exciting to provide opportunities for people without access to them. Itโ€™s a tool that does more good than evil. The Singularity* is scary because we could reach one vision or hive mind. โ€”ADAN


Brooke Alden, 15, Student

Iโ€™m more terrified than I am excited. Once it has a mind of its own, it can see how weโ€™re flawed, and it might do something about it that we donโ€™t like. Weโ€™re heading in that direction. โ€”BROOKE


Kai Manzo, 17, Student

For me itโ€™s a bit of both, but Iโ€™m excited for it as long as itโ€™s handled ethically. Until AI gets to the point of being out of control, I think it will be good. โ€”KAI


Gabie Darlak, 28, Admin

Itโ€™s frightening in the society we live in, when people in power take advantage of it. But I think thereโ€™s many ways to create beauty with it. I just donโ€™t think the world we live in will allow us to fully explore that. โ€”GABIE


John Dickerman 54 Junk vendor

Iโ€™m all for it, itโ€™s great until itโ€™s not, right? The AI stuff that people complain about doesnโ€™t bother me. Soon weโ€™ll be teleporting people around like digital files. Technologyโ€™s great, what would we do without it? โ€”JOHN


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