As artificial intelligence (AI) advances rapidly, several societal fears continue to rise, including the fear that AI will replace the need for human workers. Chatbots are programs accessible to many people with an Internet connection, and allow the human user to have a text-based conversation with a program run by AI. Several users have reported strange or unsettling conversations with chatbot programs, such as Microsoft’s new AI-incorporated version of Bing. Meanwhile, others are skeptical that AI’s “intelligence” shouldn’t be much of a concern for humans — at least not yet.
