Ronald Bailey Asks Whether Superintelligent Machines Will Destroy Humanity

In Frank Herbert’s Dune books, humanity has long
banned the creation of “thinking machines.” Ten thousand years
earlier, their ancestors destroyed all such computers in a movement
called the Butlerian Jihad, because they felt the machines
controlled them. The penalty for violating the Orange Catholic
Bible’s commandment “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness
of a human mind” is immediate death. In the December 2014 issue of
Reason,Ronald Bailey asks if humanity should sanction the creation
of intelligent machines?

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