Resurfaced Nikola Tesla writings about machines with their 'own mind' eerily predict rise of AI

Fox News correspondent Grady Trimble has the latest on fears the technology will spiral out of control on'Special Report.' Century-old writings by American inventor Nikola Tesla seem to predict the development of artificial intelligence, foreshadowing the rise of the groundbreaking tech. The technology and electricity pioneer's scientific brilliance set him up to make eerily accurate predictions, including prescient insight into the emergence of machines with their "own mind." "I purpose to show that, however impossible it may now seem, an automaton may be contrived which will have its'own mind,'" Tesla wrote in June 1900," and by this I mean that it will be able, independent of any operator, left entirely to itself, to perform, in response to external influences affecting its sensitive organs, a great variety of acts and operations as if it had intelligence." The comments were published in "The Century Magazine" in an essay titled "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy."