I, for One, Welcome Our New Computer Overlords

Those Against In an interview with the Guardian, Elon said, “I think we should be very careful about arti cial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that.”1 During a Reddit Ask Me Anything interview, Bill noted, “I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence. First, the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though, the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern. I agree with Elon Musk and some others on this and don’t understand why some people are not concerned.”2 Clive Sinclair has posited, “Once you start to make machines that are rivaling and surpassing humans with intelligence, it’s going to be very difcult for us to survive.”3 In an interview with the BBC, Stephen stated, “The development of full arti cial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”4 Woz expressed these same concerns in a wonderfully playful way, stating,