When the first automobiles started making their way across our muddy, rutted roads, the public’s reaction was decidedly mixed. One car inventor remembers being called “crazy” for thinking his “fool contraption…will ever displace the horse.” And in cities, pedestrians bristled, and outright refused to yield the streets, angered by the idea that they be “forced to submit to the tyranny of the automobilist.” These reactions are not so different to the reception of artificial intelligence today. Some struggle to imagine how AI will displace existing technology. And people worry that AI might chang…