• How’s this for a bombshell – the US must make AI its next Manhattan Project | John Naughton

    How’s this for a bombshell – the US must make AI its next Manhattan Project | John Naughton
    A new essay on the rise of superintelligent machines pivots from being a warning to humanity to a rallying cry for an industrial complex to bolster American military defence Ten years ago, the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom published Superintelligence, a book exploring how superintelligent machines could be created and what the implications of such technology might be. One was that such a machine, if it were created, would be difficult to control and might even take over the world in order to a