You might be interested in reading this little known book: Military Nanotecnology: Potential Applications and Preventive Arms Control (http://www.amazon.com/Mil

You might be interested in reading this little known book: Military Nanotecnology: Potential Applications and Preventive Arms Control (http://www.amazon.com/Military-Nanotechnology-Applications-Preventive-Contemporary/dp/0415407990 http://www.amazon.com/Military-Nanotechnology-Applications-P...) I see many parallels with concerns about nanotechnology being written off as scaremongering and little action being done in preemptive measures of control. No one on the danger side of AGI thinks monte carlo tree search will doom humanity, just as no one on the danger side of nanotech thinks that being able to move a single atom up and down in a crystal will turn that atom into a humanity-killing pathogen. But they are steps, and the future dangers are totally ignored.