There’s a new kid on the block. An elitist, unsmiling loner who does just what he wants. A changer. A shapeshifter. A disruptor who cares little for the council of industrial ‘elders’ or the traditional waters of status quo.

Unlike any character the ancients ever studied, he does what he wants, goes where he wants.

You see, from when man discovered how to make tents from bent iron, and how to make fire from cracked stones, we have come a long way. Today, there are million-dollar-a-piece drones, flying cars, self-driving bikes, gene-editing technologies, technological feats too amazing to believe.

But not all advancement is positive. As we continue to record major strides in the health sector, and we begin the countdown until cancer is no longer a threat, so must we face our realities squarely.

Some believe that humanity’s embrace of artificial intelligence is the action which eventually activates our extinction as a human race. Extremely intelligent systems trained to process exabytes of data in minutes don’t have to do much to deactivate our defences, should they choose to.

Do humans have an exit plan?

Should we enact laws that mandate a failsafe protocol should all the conspiracy theorists suddenly turn out right?
Do we have measures in place to ensure companies comply with such protocol?

And if governments make laws to curtail these strides, who curtails the governments in their own match to dominate the world?

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