[1971genocide]

You can always see biases in each case.

Bill Gates, Musk, etc are going to lose a fair bit of their power, prestige and wealth when someone does finally create super intelligence - Windows and Space X are great but those achievement will be dwarfed by whoever comes up with "superintelligence"

Ray Kurzweil's optimism comes from the fact that he will be unemployed if the govt bans A.I research.

And someone who works as a day journalist needs to make sure they meet the daily quote of generating clickbait traffic - its easiest to do it by writing something that is counter to whatever viewpoint is trendy this month.

Looking at history and how humanity dealt with technology - its fairly impossible to enforce any form of restriction on AI research.

We cannot stop >100,000 individuals from taking over an area larger than ireland in the middle east - good luck stopping the maths whiz with a pen.

[mangeletti]

I generally agree that there isn't much we can do to stop it, and I also think that trying too hard could backfire in unexpected ways, but certainly it's not something that this reporter, who is not very well informed on the matter, can correctly dismiss as hysteria.