I am really becoming convinced that the majority of the human race wants to commit mass suicide This recent story from the BBC is the latest evidence.

In a previous post on this subject, I wrote a definition of the conditions under which AI and Robots become dangerous. I said: "If you build autonomous (i.e. AI-based) robots, and give them the ability to change their design, and to replicate themselves, then without a system that ensures that the laws of robotics are always programmed in to the machines without alteration, it is game over for the human race". Well, guess what researchers have now done: precisely that!

I am sure that AI will be applied by the people who will control it (more likely to be politicians than scientists) to solving thoroughly worthy problems: world peace, global warming, world hunger, pollution of our environment, etc. The trouble with all these problems is that the primary cause is clear: too many people. So the obvious solution will be to reduce the human population, possible to zero.

Do you want to live in a world where humans are culled by machines to limit the damage that we do to the planet? I sure don't.