True AI is both logically possible and utterly implausible – Luciano Floridi Aeon Essays

Digital technologies can do more and more things better than us, by processing increasing amounts of data and improving their performance by analysing their own output as input for the next operations. AlphaGo, the computer program developed by Google DeepMind, won the boardgame Go against the world's best player because it could use a database of around 30 million moves and play thousands of games against itself, 'learning' how to improve its performance. It is like a two-knife system that can sharpen itself. That any apocalyptic vision of AI can be disregarded. The serious risk is not the appearance of some ultraintelligence, but that we might misuse our digital technologies, to the detriment of a large percentage of humanity and the whole planet.