Inventors and executives are warning of widespread consequences that they don't begin to understand. As relates to artificial intelligence, we are people on a beach seeing a tsunami coming at us and thinking "It's huge" and "We can't stop it" and "Should we run.

Shumer told Business Insider that "people deserve to know" how close AI is to fundamentally changing society. The author of the viral essay warning about impending AI disruption says he couldn't wait any longer to get the word out.