> Can someone explain to me why super-intelligent AI are an existential threat to humanity? The whole thing seems like a load of crock to me. Seems to me that

> Can someone explain to me why super-intelligent AI are an existential threat to humanity? The whole thing seems like a load of crock to me. Seems to me that artificial superintelligence (ASI) only gets media coverage because it comes from a celebrity scientist and it sounds sci-fi dystopian, and celebrity scientist sci-fi dystopian sounding stories sell way better than stories from actual AI experts who say that fanciful AI speculation harms the AI industry by leading to hype that they can't deliver on [1]: "IEEE Spectrum: We read about Deep Learning in the news a lot these days. What’s your least favorite definition of the term that you see in these stories? Yann LeCun: My least favorite description is, “It works just like the brain.” I don’t like people saying this because, while Deep Learning gets an inspiration from biology, it’s very, very far from what the brain actually does. And describing it like the brain gives a bit of the aura of magic to it, which is dangerous. It leads to hype; people claim things that are not true. AI has gone through a number of AI winters because people claimed things they couldn’t deliver." [1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/facebook-ai-director-yann-lecun-on-deep-learning http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intel...