Yes it did and that's between Plato[1] or earlier and Bostrom[2] and later, which was essentially my point. You really should have visited the link in my commen

Yes it did and that's between Plato[1] or earlier and Bostrom[2] and later, which was essentially my point. You really should have visited the link in my comment before making that observation. I was speaking about the theoretical basis of the idea. Elon Musk's caution about AI comes from the book superintelligence[3] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bostrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bostrom [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dangers,_Strategies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dang...