Will Technology Turn on Us? What Bond Villains, Hollywood and African Proverbs Say About the Fear of AI

From Hitler's rockets to rogue chatbots, every new technology arrives with a villain attached. Here is why we keep writing the same nightmare, and what is actually worth worrying about.

Think of James Bond and you picture martinis, gadgets and a tuxedo. But a recent Chinese tech essay argued that the series is really a long record of humanity's fear of its own inventions, and it is hard to disagree.