In all the discussions being had about artificial intelligence (AI), and particularly about its role in education, there remains one largely overlooked or dismissed perspective. While arguably old-fashioned, this approach has the virtue of simplicity and clarity, and probably more practical utility in determining how we respond to it. AI is evil.
However you phrase it, it is plain bad and nasty and will do only harm to people. And if this comes across as spittle-flecked and paranoid, the fact remains – you can look 'em up – that AI fulfils so many of the formal theological and philosophical definitions of evil, across times and nations, that whether you believe in the distinct, metaphysical reality of the diabolic or not is almost moot.
