4 ways AI will prevent – not cause – an apocalypse

The coming advent of super-intelligent AI has some of the greatest minds of our time crying apocalypse. Stephen Hawking co-authored an article on the topic which darkly quipped that "success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history--unfortunately, it might also be the last." Bill Gates has likewise voiced concern. Elon Musk famously called artificial intelligence our "greatest existential threat" and issued a letter (along with Stephen Hawking, Steve Wozniak, and hundreds of others) warning that AI could be more dangerous than nuclear weapons, and he's been doing a lot of hand-wringing again lately. In a recent address to an assembly of U.S. governors, Musk warned that AI needs to be regulated before it's too late.