I agree that it would be better not to have autonomously acting AIs, but not having any autonomously acting AIs would require a way to prevent anyone deploying them, and so far I haven't seen a proposal for that that'd seem even remotely feasible.
And if we can't stop them from being deployed, then deploying Friendly AIs first looks like the scenario that's more likely to work - which still isn't to say very likely, but at least it seems to have a chance of working even in principle. I don't see that an even-in-principle way for "just don't deploying autonomous AIs" to work.
When you say autonomous AIs, do you mean AIs that are autonomous and superinteligent?
Do you think they could he deployed by basement hackers, or only by large organisations?
Do you think an organisation like the military or business has a motivation to deploy them?
Do you agree that there are dangers to an FAI project that goes wrong?
Do you have a plan B to cope with a FAI that goes rogue?
Do you think that having a AI potentially running the world is an attractive idea to a lot of people?
There have been a couple of brief discussions of this in the Open Thread, but it seems likely to generate more so here's a place for it.
The original paper in Nature about AlphaGo.
Google Asia Pacific blog, where results will be posted. DeepMind's YouTube channel, where the games are being live-streamed.
Discussion on Hacker News after AlphaGo's win of the first game.