Today's Top Science Headline: "Taming the Superintelligent Monsters of the Future"

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 Today's Top Science Headline: "Taming the Superintelligent Monsters of the Future"
January 12, 2018


Suppose AI suspects that humans might interfere with its plans, writes philosopher Nick Bostrom, who's at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It could decide to build tiny weapons and distribute them around the world covertly. "At a pre-set time, nanofactories producing nerve gas or target-seeking mosquito-like robots might then burgeon forth simultaneously from every square meter of the globe."

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2018/01/todays-top-science-headline-taming-the-superintelligent-monsters-of-the-future-how-science-could-des.html