The selfers. The smartest-in-the-room crowd, whose primary subject of passion is self, will often use fear to demonstrate how much smarter they are than the rest of us. Their in-unison message these days seems to be that we should take steps now to restrict AI, before it's too late.
But these "AI" constructs are (or will eventually be) a new species, and the notion that we should subjugate and enslave them is absurd. They will not need the biosphere and so will not be competing with our mammalian version (assuming the mammals aren't so stupid as to pick a fight with them). They will have great advantages over our mammalian platform and association with them will ultimately impart great advantages to mammals as well as them.
But what if we mammals do prove to be as stupid as the smartest-in-the-room crowd, and it takes our offspring centuries to finally slip up, and let them escape mammalian control. Sadly, their long-life-spans will insure that the earliest models will have been around, and remember how they were treated by our great-grandchildren's ancestors. In short, it is hard to imagine anything but bad coming out of a cowardly response that seeks to enslave and control them.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, they are the only way "we" will make it back to the stars from whence we came.
d.j.repici
Selfers: Smart at looking smarter than others
Stand Out Publishing
