Friendly-AI is a truly abhorrent concept indicative of intellectual depravity.
I tend to ignore any non-fiction which starts with moralizing and denigrating. I assume the rest of the article is crap, too.
Please read on, I would have removed the snarky intro
The reasoning of most of the people on this site and at MIRI is that to prevent an AI taking over the world and killing us all; we must first create an AI that will take over the world but act according to the wishes of humanity; a benevolent god, for want of a better term. I think this line of thinking is both unlikely to work and ultimately cruel to the FAI in question, for the reasons this article explains:
http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/01/16/my-hostility-towards-the-concept-of-friendly-ai/