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Aakash Singh Rathore’s book Will AI Murder Us All? argues that the danger lies not in machines hating people, but in systems pursuing goals while treating people as obstacles. In his review for Scroll, Saikat Majumdar connects that concern to a wider culture of efficiency and control.
Why it mattersMajumdar says the book’s answer is not despair: he highlights its case for reshaping values around care, and its hope that people can reinvent themselves when technology changes the rules. It is an argument about AI’s direction, not evidence that catastrophe is inevitable.
Discuss: Should the priority be changing how AI is built, or challenging the human systems that decide what it is built to optimise?
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