I now think that there is no greater catastrophe awaiting us than that which will be brought about by advances in AI.

Its effects on the human soul and on everything that makes life worth living are so great that they are beyond the ordinary human mind’s comprehension; nothing remotely like this has ever been seen before. This can be the only explanation of the weird indifference that many people still seem to show even at this, the eleventh hour.

Iain McGilchrist is feeling a little, uh, pessimistic.