AI researcher says amoral robots pose a danger to humanity

AI researcher says amoral robots pose a danger to humanity - Computerworld: ""I'm worried about both whether it's people making machines do evil things or the machines doing evil things on their own," said Selmer Bringsjord, professor of cognitive science, computer science and logic and philosophy at RPI in Troy, N.Y. "The more powerful the robot is, the higher the stakes are. If robots in the future have autonomy..., that's a recipe for disaster.



"If we were to totally ignore this, we would cease to exist," he added."