Like those diagnosed with a terminal illness, humanity is being forced through the stages of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance as AI’s capabilities and potential rapidly expand.
Like those diagnosed with a terminal illness, humanity is being forced through the stages of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance as AI’s capabilities and potential rapidly expand. But there is a crucial difference: AI and its uses are not outside our control. CAMBRIDGE—People facing a diagnosis of terminal illness, the Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross famously wrote, experience five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The same could also be said of our response to AI’s rapidly expanding capabilities.