Three ways AI will change the course of humanity

Over the long sweep of history, three forces have driven humanity’s greatest transformations, for good and ill: disease, war and economic growth. By reducing costs and increasing the availability and productivity of a vast array of goods and services, artificial intelligence will have a profound impact on all three. History is littered with plagues and pandemics that altered the trajectory of human population growth. The Black Death, for example, killed between 75 million and 200 million people across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa between 1346 and 1353.