> First, citing Kurzweil as a proponent of AI risk is very odd. The article doesn't do that. It says: > The leading theorist and cheerleader for mankind’s imm

> First, citing Kurzweil as a proponent of AI risk is very odd. The article doesn't do that. It says: > The leading theorist and cheerleader for mankind’s imminent disappearance into insignificance or worse is Ray Kurzweil, who extrapolates the exponential growth in technological capability characterised by Moore’s law to a point in the mid 2040s—the Singularity—where AI will be self-perpetuating and no longer reliant on human intellect. Kurzweil is being brought up as someone who thinks that some sort of superintelligence will soon surpass humans, which is true. The "cheerleader" comment is to indicate that, as you put it, "Kurzweil thinks AI is the bees knees."