Woz on artificial intelligence: ‘The future is scary and very bad for people’

this article is a prime example why i don't give mainstream "journalism" a dime of a chance. the author clearly lacks a big chunk of intellect or whatever to properly deal with the subject. as soon as things get controversial, editorial-staff-sponsored cognitive dissonance kicks in to calm the flock. i'm so sick of the bunch that wapo and co are.

"The Super Rich Technologists Making Dire Predictions About Artificial Intelligence club gained another fear-mongering member this week: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak."

This article is immediately nonsense.

So everyone without an AI background but with high net worth has a go - is this how it works? Like the Ice Bucket challenge but about AI scaremongering.

In the grand scheme of things, the important bit is for some intelligence on Earth to survive. Maybe a non-Facebook+CandyCrush-loving kind of intelligence would be a better option.

Could these predictions be more telling? Computers will make you irrelevant. They'll make you useless to society. You won't be important anymore.

These predictions are the very definition of FUD.

Oh no if robots get into power maybe they'll institute mass surveillance and start taking our rights away!

Oh wait...