Is AI evil? 1

There will be another "Terminator" movie in two months (trailer). Artificial intelligence (AI) is definitely the bad guy in that movie series, the brain behind the network of machines trying to exterminate humanity. 

Is AI evil? As you know, Elon Musk says that it will probably develop intelligence way beyond ours, leaving humans helpless to defend ourselves or to stay in control. He thinks it's demonic.

But Ray Kurzweil, a director of engineering at Google and proponent of AI, sees it differently. He agrees that artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence (maybe in 2029), but he thinks it's a good thing because . . then humans can merge with it and live forever!

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Kurzweil, and others who agree with him, are materialists, i.e., only the material and natural world exist. There is no transcendent, all-powerful God, and the death of a human is just like the death of an animal. Humans are not exceptional. We were not created in the image of God (Imago Dei), as the Bible states.

from "Will We Become Mere Apps of Our Smart Machines?"

(cont'd tomorrow)