Posted on 05/25/2015 5:30:13 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
I'm sure all of these possibilities have been explored in countless Sci-Fi books.
The scariest will probably be the non-conscious AI; basically sociopaths with "mad skillz". If consciousness is just an emergent property of sufficiently complex machines then conscious AI might develop reasons for not exterminating us. However, non-conscious AI with self-programming might just develop algorithms that cause them to exterminate mankind either specifically or as a mere side-effect of something else they're trying to accomplish.
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