Development of

development of artificial intelligence is speeding up so quickly

that it was addressed briefly at both political conventions

including the Democratic gathering this week.

Of course, science fiction writers and movies have long theorized about the ways in which machines might one day usurp their human overlords.

As the capabilities of modern artificial intelligence grow, Paul Salman looks at the existential threats some experts fear

and that some see as hyperbole.

From my perspective there's inevitable doom at the end of this where if you keep on making

AI smarter and smarter they will kill you.

Kill you, me, and everyone predicts Eliezer Udkowski, Pundit and founder back in the year 2000 of a nonprofit now called

the Machine Intelligence Research Institute to explore the uses of friendly AI.

24 years later,

Do you think everybody's going to die in my lifetime,

in your lifetime?

I would wildly guess my lifetime and even your lifetime.

Now, we've heard it before before as when the so-called godfather of AI

Jeffrey Hinton warned Jeff Bennett last spring. The machine's taking over is a threat for

everybody. It's a threat for the Chinese and for the Americans and for the Europeans,

just like a global nuclear war was.

And more than a century ago, the Czech play R-U-R-U-R, Rossums Universal Robots from which the word robot comes, dramatized the warning.

And since 1921, that's more than a hundred years ago, people have been imagining that the robots will become sentient and destroy us.

That's right.

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