Douglas Adams: People are misguided if they think that thinking about things like AI and being able to control them are the same thing. We could think endlessly about the nature of AI, but I think the likelihood that you'll be able to stop it is highly unlikely. He says he doesn't relish a world in which the machine can compete with the greatest human mind. The one that alarms him more is the issue of memory and human memory.

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