Knowing the way that humans are notoriously bad at planning beyond the short term, Armstrong feels that given the risk "it would perhaps be best not to create AI at all," since in the end our only hope of competing with AI might be the long shot of being able to upload our brains and turn ourselves into digital beings.
Not creating AI at all doesn't seem to be a viable option to me.
Nope. It's vulnerable to a single cheater.
A short article, quoting me and Luke:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-05/17/the-dangers-of-an-ai-smarter-than-us
It makes the point that it's not the shambling robots that are the risks here, but the other powers of intelligence.