Scott McKayIf you’ve been watching the various segments Melissa and I have been doing about AI at The Spectacle Podcast in recent weeks — and if you haven’t, what on earth is the matter with you? — you’ll know that I’m the sunny optimist of the two. Melissa, by comparison, is almost convinced SkyNet is going to kill us all before the Yankees next win the World Series.

It’s not that I can’t see that happening. I do believe in chaos theory, though. I’m a little like Jeff Goldblum’s character in the Jurassic Park movies — I’m the guy who says, “Yeah, you think that’s how it’s going to work, but… it probably isn’t going down that way.” …