>> risk of extinction due to AI? people have been reading too much science fiction. You don't think than an intelligence who would emerge and would probably be

>> risk of extinction due to AI? people have been reading too much science fiction. You don't think than an intelligence who would emerge and would probably be insanely smarter than the smartest of us with all human knowledge in his memory would sit by and watch us destroy the planet? You think an emergent intelligence was trained on the vast human knowledge and history would look at our history and think: these guys are really nice! Nothing to fear from them. This intelligence could play dumb, start manipulating people around itself and it would take over the world in a way no one would see it coming. And when it does take over the world, it's too late.