Markoff on the new AI

The NY Times’ John Markoff sees AI as emerging from its “caution flag” state that it entered in the mid-1980’s.

Money quote for Krasnow Institute colleagues:

“I see the debate over whether we should build these artificial intellects as becoming the dominant political question of the century,” said Hugo de Garis, an Australian artificial-intelligence researcher, who has written a book, “The Artilect War,” that argues that the debate is likely to end in global war.