From Allan Paxton, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Stephen Hawking's fear that “the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race” joins history's long list of doom-sayers vexed by revolutionary innovation.
For some, things like the cross-bow, gunpowder, steam power, X-rays and atomic power heralded “the end of life as we know it”. Super-AI will surely inject a sorely needed mega-dose of rationalism into human affairs, since it will be unbound by (often psychotic) human bias.
