Joe McKendrick, senior contributor at Forbes.com, predicts that artificial intelligence will fade into the background.

It sort of already has, as even he points out in his article.

That, you see, is the trouble. We don’t know the training models for these artificial intelligences, we don’t know what biases are inherent in it, and we’re at the mercy of whoever is responsible for these artificial intelligences. We’re hoping that they’re thoughtful and considerate and not more concerned with money than people.

That really hasn’t worked out so well for us in the past. Yet the present is here in all it’s glory, unrepentant. It’s happening more obviously now with the news since next year we get artificial news anchors. It’s being used to fight misinformation on social media platforms like Facebook without even explaining to Facebook users why posts are removed and what they contained that was worth removing them for. It’s here and has been here for a while.

Weirder still is the fact that even Facebook’s algorithms aren’t catching deepfake videos with consequences in Bangladesh.

Pandora’s box has been opened, and the world will never quite be the same again. Archimedes once talked about having a lever long enough.

Nowadays it’s just a matter of a choice of fulcrum.

Democracy, based on the idea that informed people can make informed choices in their own interest and the common good, could easily become misDemocracy, where the misinformed make misinformed choices that they think is in their own interests and what they think is the common good.