Right now, the most likely and potentially frightening use of AI will be when TPTB discover that the best way to ration health care is via an all-encompassing medical AI. Who needs “death panels” when the AI can make all the tough decisions for you? Got an expensive disease? Not able to be a viable economic contributor to society??? Off to Carousel with you.
(gratuitous Logan’s Run reference)
Obviously this can’t quite happen yet, in part because a particular political bloc needs unviable economic non-contributors as their voting power bloc. However, once capitalism and democracy are on the ash heap of history and the oligarchs have cemented their grip on power, hey, the sky’s the limit, right?
That’s as scary as it is believable.
I’m pretty certain such algorithms and ‘trend projections’ are already in use by actuarial tables.
This will only increase in speed and efficiency, devoid of any humanity, unless even that trait can somehow be fed into the software.