Humans Locked in a Digital Arms Race With Robots

Analysis If the internet were the real world, it may very well resemble a sci-fi movie where robots have taken over the planet, or at the very least, started living alongside human beings. A tell-tale sign of this amalgam between the organic and the robotic realms are the absurd, artificial intelligence (AI) generated images popping up on social media accounts. Some take the form of images that show puppies sleeping in a box in the rain, begging users to share. Others show children in dire poverty or war zones. Sometimes, on closer inspection, these “children” have three limbs, six fingers, or two noses—the result of an AI that may store information, but lacks human knowledge of what comprises an actual body....