> "I am conviced they realized that once a smarter-than-human A.I. will exist, one of the first things it will do is to ridicule our completely idiotic ways to

> "I am conviced they realized that once a smarter-than-human A.I. will exist, one of the first things it will do is to ridicule our completely idiotic ways to use our resources " Or ridicule the way that we designed it, at which point it may decide to correct our mistakes. If we can program it, and it is smarter than us, than presumably it can program a smarter it. That scenario could be harmless, or it could be very dangerous. I expect that as soon as we start to get close to this sort of achievement, we'll start to see at least informal "Turing Police". Groups of people who task themselves with preventing the ascension of strong AI (or at least construct physical safeguards to kill the host hardware in the case of an emergency.)