Nick Bostrom: ‘We are like small children playing with a bomb’

Nick Bostrom: ‘We are like small children playing with a bomb’ | Technology | The Guardian: "In his book he talks about the “intelligence explosion” that will occur when machines much cleverer than us begin to design machines of their own. “Before the prospect of an intelligence explosion, we humans are like small children playing with a bomb,” he writes. “We have little idea when the detonation will occur, though if we hold the device to our ear we can hear a faint ticking sound.” "