> Complexity. I doubt its possible by intelligent design. Every single time anyone has ever used "it's too complicated to be possible", they have been proven w

> Complexity. I doubt its possible by intelligent design. Every single time anyone has ever used "it's too complicated to be possible", they have been proven wrong. Take a look at the phone you use every day, then imagine being alive in 1945. Someone describes that phone to you, what would your instinct be? "That's incredibly complicated; even if a machine COULD do all that -- which I doubt -- it certainly couldn't do it with something that fits in your pocket!" People also often use "too complex" as a reason to deny evolution, since they can't imagine anything as complex as current living creatures occurring by chance mutations. TL;DR: "It's too complex" has never been a sound argument against anything, and is always proven wrong. > So at least this kind of AI can reliably be stopped by disabling their parenting robotic arm. Sure; but then again, humans can be reliably stopped by killing them, yet evil people continue to exist because killing one person doesn't stop the people around them or their children from carrying out the same actions they did. That's why war doesn't ever solve any problems long-term (and often not even short-term), yet it continues. This is similar: you disable the parenting arm, and it stops making more bots, but the bots that already were made continue on.