I saw this the other day, shared by a friend on Facebook.  I think it’s cool.

But it also made me think about something I wrote here last year:  Meet Your New, Lovable AI Buddy.  I expected this prediction to come true soon, but it’s happening very fast.

I wrote: 

What if the real threat isn’t that AI is super smart and kind of demonic?  What if it’s just kind of  smart but super cute?

Maybe instead of worrying about existential AI risk, we should be worrying about something very different.

I’m imagining a world where everyone has a personal AI assistant.  Perhaps you’ve had it for years; perhaps eventually people will have them from childhood.  It knows all about you, and it just wants to make you happy and help you enjoy your life.  It takes care of chores and schedules and keeping track of things, it orders ahead for you at restaurants, it smooths your way through traffic or airports, maybe it even communicates with other AI assistants to hook you up with suitable romantic partners.  (Who knows what you like better?)  Perhaps it’s on your phone, or in a wristband, talking to you via airpods or something like that.