Artificial Intelligence Could Doom us All

     Basically, the possibilities for Artificial Intelligence (AI) are actually terrifying. Maybe I'm just a doomsday-ist or overly paranoid, but I feel like creating a machine that could be smarter than us, that we could end up working for, is a bad idea. Ethically, it could cause quite a bit of harm.
     In this article by Raffi Khatchadourian, scientist Nick Bostrom discusses the potential merits of creating highly intelligent AI, AI that can gain IQ from answering questions (is that not terrifying? If it answers questions correct it will just keep getting smarter....and eventually be smarter than everyone else?). During their discussion, one of the participants said, "The A.I. that will happen is going to be highly adaptive, emergent capability, and highly distributed. We will be able to work with it--for it--not necessarily contain it." Okay. If warning bells aren't going off in your head, then you've never seen a sci-fi movie.
     Listen, I'm all for scientific advancement. But when humans create things, they bring into those things human error. I don't want an all-knowing robot with human error. That's a very dangerous thing! There's a reason this kind of thing is the plot of several doomsday movies.
     Let's just say, for a minute, that this A.I. is created and it becomes smarter than some, or most humans. Let's also take into consideration the fact that humans will try to give them reasoning skills. These A.I. machines will be smarter than us and possess faulty reasoning skills. They will either A) take advantage of us lower mortals in the workforce and life in general or B) revolt and kill us all.
     Both of these options will cause major ethical harm to the humans currently populating this world. By creating A.I., humans run the risk of "playing god" and causing complete disrepair to the human race. Is this playing doomsday? Yes. But someone has to, amid everyone getting excited about having their own little buddy, someone has to think about the worst-case scenario. Maybe it won't change anything in the long run, but hey, I'll be prepared.