You mean a time machine to send Arnold Schwarzenegger back to the past, right? X-D

I actually mean sticking together the technology for driverless cars, image recognition and ballistics. The first generation have already been built.

I do hope Arnie becomes president in time for the AI debate to enter politics.

"Mr President, the expert opinion is that reliquishment is impossible. There are too many commercial uses for proto-AI, there is no hard line between mathematics and AI, and finally it is simply not possible to ban computers nor to monitor all code written on them"

"So... what you are saying is that judgement day is inevitable?"

Have you seen a global singleton to start with?

Nope. But shminux was saying that we've seen humanity recover from local dytopias, and I was pointing out that this line of argument doesn't hold for global singletons.