AI-Paranoia Is Nothing New: Looking Back at 1980s 'Computerphobia'

Those who fear the consequences of artificial intelligence (AI) may take comfort in knowing that they have plenty of company. New technologies always produce new anxieties.
Indeed, fretful souls in search of kindred spirits need look no deeper into history than the 1980s.
Those of us who entered adolescence during that “Morning in America” decade might have forgotten one of its ironic phenomena: “computerphobia,” or the intense fear of personal computers, at that time sti