I find it so interesting that many people are concerned about AI "waking up" and taking over, which I don't believe can ever happen, but are blissfully unworrie

I find it so interesting that many people are concerned about AI "waking up" and taking over, which I don't believe can ever happen, but are blissfully unworried about this much more serious and immediate danger: that we ourselves will choose to put machines in control of things they cannot possibly understand. It is the kind of thinking reflected here -- remarkably romantic and naïve for a self-styled "skeptic" -- that exposes us to this danger. "It might not be such a bad thing if we went extinct" and ceded the world to our machines? For all his classy, educated-sounding British accent, this man is a nutcase.