The Impending Artificial Intelligence Revolution

Alan Moore: There's every indication that we may never create a self-aware, a true artificial intelligence and artificial awareness. What we will have is extraordinarily powerful processing machines that could do a great deal to benefit society. I think you could use niche AIs to make most of the administrative decisions that we currently employ politicians for. The downside of AIs is that sooner or later somebody is going to trust their missile defenses to an I.O.A. And then we would be in very dangerous waters where a computer error could lead to the extension of the spaces. So there's no way to un-invent artificial intelligence. It is just one of the mutations of the world that we