Caging AI

As we celebrate the success of AI, it is necessary to investigate the boundaries of AI, a la Karl Popper, so that our society does not fall for misleading commercial claims, and prevent dangers of misusing AI. We chat with our readers casually on several frontier questions from if AI will replace human beings, to AI consciousness, self and nonself awareness, and to our jobs and education. While some things in this essay are speculative, some other things are mathematically proved. We argue why AI and AI generated content should be segregated, and why AGI (artificial general intelligence) cannot make innovations about things independent to human knowledge without external experiments.