The Indian American

22 THE INDIAN AMERICAN OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2018 NEW YORK ver 200 years ago, Mary Shelley scripted Frankenstein in response to increasing industrialization and the per- vading fear that machinery would eventually render humanity obsolete. The real villain in the novel is not the monster, but Dr. Frankenstein, its creator. As our society is formed and molded by the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Frankenstein has become the face of critiques on AI. Like Frankenstein, Silicon Valley program- mers are consumed in creating products by all available means, thereby slowly building machine learning monsters that both assist and supersede human capabilities. The real malice of AI is subtle, hidden in the warm embrace of its convenience and familiarity. O Resisting the Familiarity of Artificial Intelligence By Lavanya Mookerjee Photo: Dreamstime Technology