Richard Dawkins: If AI Ran the World, Maybe It Would Be a Better Place

Re:Richard Dawkins: If AI Ran the World, Maybe It Would Be a... by ScottBurson on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @06:33PM (#15352945)

I find it so interesting that many people are concerned about AI "waking up" and taking over, which I don't believe can ever happen, but are blissfully unworried about this much more serious and immediate danger: that we ourselves will choose to put machines in control of things they cannot possibly understand. It is the kind of thinking reflected here -- remarkably romantic and naïve for a self-styled "skeptic" -- that exposes us to this danger.

"It might not be such a bad thing if we went extinct" and ceded the world to our machines? For all his classy, educated-sounding British accent, this man is a nutcase.

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Re:Richard Dawkins: If AI Ran the World, Maybe It Would Be a... by synicalx on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @07:53PM (#15353403)

> For all his classy, educated-sounding British accent, this man is a nutcase.

He just seems to not like people at all, over the years he's gotten more and more aggressive and abrasive when debating anyone about anything. He just comes across as a very unpleasant person.

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