AI Alarmism: why smart people believe dumb things about our future AI overlords
by Cory Doctorow from on (#26BNS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kErHiET5YPw
Maciej CegAowski (previously) gave this talk, "Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People," at Web Camp Zagreb last October, spending 45 minutes delving into the origin of the idea that computers are going to become apocalyptic, self-programming, superintelligent basilisks that end all live on Earth (and variations on this theme) and then explaining why this fundamentally evidence-free, fuzzy idea has colonized so many otherwise brilliant people -- including people like Stephen Hawking -- and why it's an irrational and potentially harmful belief system. (more")