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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 20 August 2014 10:43:36AM 2 points [-]

General intelligence is possible and what we need in order to reach a positive Singularity. Narrow intelligences that are powerful and dangerous may well be easier to build than general intelligence, so yes, we should be quite concerned about them.

Add a "may be" to the first sentence and I'm with you.