> Some PhD student may make one tomorrow... I've personally found tinkerers typically are the ones to make leaps and bounds. They aren't constrained in their t

> Some PhD student may make one tomorrow... I've personally found tinkerers typically are the ones to make leaps and bounds. They aren't constrained in their thinking, unlike those found in academia. I think anyone with real intelligence would recognize the danger and either not attempt it, or destroy their work and never tell a soul if they did manage it somehow. There are plenty of things made by accident though, and stupid-dumb people account for most people in a normal distribution. Also, you don't realize, AI likely won't be the ones to kill us, it will simply cause a change in one of our already complex societal systems, which will cause a cascade failure that causes the engine of society to fail. Like sticking an unbreakable bar into the spokes of a turning wheel, or throwing glue into a runaway engine. Eventually the motor stops, and when it does people don't eat, and people that are starving are not rational.