[Quiet Man Cometh]

Help! I need assist!

So for my Information and Society course I need to make weekly discussion postings on various topics and I'm drawing an absolute blank for this one.

The point is to argue something good or bad about artificial intelligence. We had a few articles to read, but not much, and I have no idea where to go.

What's good about AI? What's bad about AI? There are potential economic issues if machines take over certain jobs, bumping out people. And, of course, everything mentions the 'machines get smarter than us and make danger" rebuttal, though the usual response to that of vague 'safeguards' never seems too persuasive to me. (Science fiction seems to find ways around those safeguards quite a bit. ;P)

So really though, anyone have thoughts? I think the basic idea is to stick with something realistic but I'm tempted fly out into the realm of super-intelligence and emotive robots.