content: Oh it will have huge consequences for the average joe. Just think at how many jobs even a primitive AI could automate leaving you jobless and without any hope to find a new job in your field. Just think how an AI that can actually understand (written or spoken) English at a blazing fast speed could do to our privacy. Just think at how your gadgets could refuse to work if used to do anything perceived as illegal or even report you to the local law enforcement agency (did your teenager son take a naked picture of himself for his girlfriend/boyfriend? did you try to scan money? did you talk on your phone about a way to evade taxes? did you photograph/record/watch copyrighted material?). Just think at smart-cams all around the city profiling you and reporting you for any possible violation of the code. Just think at smartphones, always with you and around you, seeing what yo  6638  u see, hearing what you hear. I used to make this example... think if Hitler ever had available the data that Facebook has today... think how many persons would have been killed or persecuted just because they had a Jewish friend or Jewish origins. Think a how easy it would have been for them not only to spot Jewish, but also anyone who could possibly have a reason to hide them. Now add to this AI and it becomes instantly one thousand times worse. And now... think at this... no one can assure you that it will not happen again... it might happen tomorrow, or in 20 years from now... and you will be prosecuted for something that you wrote 5 years ago online. So yeah, AI is kind of important even for the average joe.