Douglas Adams, the author of Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, once came up with a set of rules to describe our reactions to technologies. He wrote: ​1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. ​2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary, and you can probably get a career in it. ​3. Anything invented after you’re 35 is against the natural order of things. ​So your attitude towards AI might depend on your age. However, like all aspects of life, AI is coming at surfing, and from all angles. It is being used to gather information on wave patterns, weather conditions, water temperature, surfer movements, competition scores, simulation, media output, imagery, virtual reality and much more. ​But to be forewarned is to be forearmed. And so we’ve collected the categories where AI is hitting surfing and surfers: the good, the bad, and the scary.…