Programmed trading on the stock market doesn't take human response times. In fact, its designed to react and communicate trades as near the speed of light as possible.

AIs (that don't exist yet) are going to be in charge of controlling electronic systems (examples given). They will behave with a time-constant that is unrelated to human reaction times. They will be able to do harm, and compound that harm, at rates mere humans will be powerless to react/

Got it. Hyperbole and unfounded fearmongering. Thanks for clarifying.

Only if you're afraid? I'm not. The issue was just this: AIs will operate quickly. Faster than we can react. That's the nature of electronic life vs biological. So it would be good to be ready for that.

And I suppose you have suggestions for how we might "be ready"?

What's with all the hate? Wishing that AIs were tame, slow, manageable tools is all fine and good; but I just pointed out that there's a very high speed-limit to how fast they'll be able to think. Why waste your venom on me?

This isn't a sci-fi authors message board. If all you want to do is listen to the sound of your own voice you should go elsewhere.