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Re:Elon Musk: AI could be more dangerous than nukes by zoba on Sunday August 03, 2014 @02:24PM (#8128690)
What a terrible ending to the article. What Musk is warning against is a system that is capable of accomplishing it's own goals, and if those goals conflict with our own goals then there will be trouble - especially if the AI is clever enough. Whether or not we are living in a simulation is irrelevant - we are still agents with goals.

Maybe the author was trying to be silly, but, if that's the case I can see why he writes for CNet at not Comedy Central.

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Re:Elon Musk: AI could be more dangerous than nukes by _up on Sunday August 03, 2014 @02:42PM (#8128736)
I think even before AI becomes intelligent enough to potentially destroy us. They will be intelligent enough to get used as smart weapons that are controlled by only a handfull of poeple that seek to controll the world. For Atomic bombs you still need a lot of people to keep them working and effective. AI Robots on the other hand could work, repair and advance themself.
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