>But weaponized drones and robots will give much more power to a future skynet ... Nah, not really. In the face of a proper hard-takeoff superintelligence, Sk

>But weaponized drones and robots will give much more power to a future skynet ... Nah, not really. In the face of a proper hard-takeoff superintelligence, Skynet will look positively incompetent by comparison. There's enough manufacturing equipment connected to the internet today that a superintelligence could physically manifest whatever it wishes. That's not to mention all the human labor it could coerce, trick or pay. Put simply: as soon as the thing copied itself into the internet, that's game over. Better hope it likes us.