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Gondolinian comments on [LINK] Steven Hawking warns of the dangers of AI - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Gondolinian 02 December 2014 04:28:11PM *  2 points [-]

It also mentions Elon Musk:

In the longer term, the technology entrepreneur Elon Musk has warned that AI is "our biggest existential threat".

To be fair though, this is in the article too:

But others are less pessimistic.

"I believe we will remain in charge of the technology for a decently long time and the potential of it to solve many of the world problems will be realised," said Rollo Carpenter, creator of Cleverbot.

[...]

"We cannot quite know what will happen if a machine exceeds our own intelligence, so we can't know if we'll be infinitely helped by it, or ignored by it and sidelined, or conceivably destroyed by it," he says.

But he is betting that AI is going to be a positive force.