Ideas: Artificial Intelligence is Scary

In recent news, computers can now beat us at video games they're not even programmed to play. I think we can now officially begin the countdown to the robot takeover.


For years, I've advocated that kids only be allowed to play video games on their own when they can beat their parents at them (note that this rule conveniently restricts the practice time that children can get in order to beat their parents). It's like the 21st century version of facing down your pop in one-on-one basketball. When you finally beat him, you realize your dad is an old man. Well, we humans are now the old men to the computers.

Now that computers know they are our superiors, can we really trust the artificial intelligences of the future to not rise up against us? You think they'll let a flimsy set of rules like Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics to protect us? Not when most of Asimov's robot stories involve finding loopholes in these laws.

Looks like it's time to go Sarah Connor and train up the future generation of robot fighters. Get the word out there. It's reassuring to know that Disney-Pixar's already on the case. After all, what is Cars but a cautionary tale of how Google's driverless cars rebel and eliminate humanity, only to take on human traits and culture in their remorse.