The Long Doomsday of A.I.

After industry-wide calls for regulation, what's concerning isn't that the problems are real. It's that there are no guaranteed solutions. That's how people talk in " Neuromancer," William Gibson's seminal science-fiction novel, from 1984. In the book's imagined future, a police force prevents artificially intelligent computers from getting too smart. Turing agents carry guns and have powers of arrest.