A New Age of AI

When it comes to the age of AI

Do I think that the age of AI and mass automation already here? Yes

China already cashierless super markets and uses facial recognition for payment
Embark has already developed self driving trucks, they still have a driver but it's only a safety measure

Do I think that automation will create a lot* of new challenges that we need to overcome? Yes

Half of Americans can't afford a $400 sudden expense, so when a robot takes your job and you're out of
    work for a week, a month, a year, it can do a lot of damage.
There's already self ordering at fast food chains while cashiering is the #1 job in the greater DC region

Do I think this could be really helpful? Yes

Doctors are using AI to try to diagnose breast cancer earlier in development, when it is easier to remove and trying to detect when surgery is or isn't needed to stop some unnecessary procedures. 

Do I think this could be really dangerous? Yeah

The world of computers and AI are trying to make things easier, more efficient, more personalized to the individual but what I can see happening is a world so personalized to each individual that they
only see what they want to see and never learn new things
only see things that they agree with and become closed minded, isolated 

Do I think that because of these challenges we should stop? No

I do think that this will be, in all honesty, really hard for the world as a whole.
While automation's main goal is to make lifestyle easier and businesses more efficient, the side effects can't be ignored, automation is not only coming for blue collar but white collar jobs as well
It's a constant back and forth

Automation is good it's making businesses more efficient > It's replacing workers > History's seen this before, those workers will evolve into different kinds of jobs > We don't know that > But it could happen > etc. etc.

While I think on the social justice side of things, I think we should hold back a little
We can barely get our society to function equality across race, gender, sexual identity, sexual preference, etc.
If we can't even teach ourselves to be equal, how can we teach an AI, when the ones at the top running everything that ever was are white men, a demographic that not only has next to no persecution in history but also holds the place as probably the most racist demographic 

A great link to see some inequality in AI already is this article right here
Who is Making Sure the AI Machines Aren't Racist