Can We Avoid a Digital Apocalypse?

"It seems increasingly likely that we will one day build machines that possess superhuman intelligence," he writes. "Such a machine would quickly free us from drudgery and even from the inconvenience of doing most intellectual work." He says such a machine might very well develop goals incompatible with our own. Merely admitting this is sobering, but it's also possible to admit in best case scenario that chaos could ensue.