The Verge writes, Google pledges not to develop artificial intelligence weapons.

Google, now launching a new set of corporate principles that says it will not let its artificial intelligence be used in any U.S. military weapon.

Then there's the market mogul headline.

Artificial intelligence will forever change the battlefield. Is that good or bad?

An AI arms race may be a race to Armageddon.

The Times Herald. We should heed Stephen Hawking's AI warning.

I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

And it goes on. There's been a lot of fear-mongering about artificial intelligence or AI recently.

Artificial intelligence is all the rage in Silicon Valley these days.

The big tech companies are madly working to create software and algorithms that can do things

only humans are currently capable of doing.

That has many predicting the destruction of millions of American jobs over the next five to ten years.

And then there's people like Elon Musk. Okay, the guy's super smart. We all know that.

And he's really sounding the alarm.

I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence.

If I would guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that.

So we need to be very careful with artificial intelligence.

I mean, with artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon.

You know, you know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water,

and he's like, yeah, you sure you can control the demon?

It doesn't work out. Now, Musk's comments play into a larger fear about computers that has been echoing through science fiction for decades.

The Terminator film franchise has been warning us for 30 years about what happens when artificial intelligence takes over the U.S. military.

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