Temple Grandin: A.I. Won't Destroy Us--if We Make a Crucial Change Now

I first become aware of A.I. in 1968, when I saw a movie that affected me deeply, 2001: A Space Odyssey, by the director Stanley Kubrick. I loved science-fiction movies, but this one had a special significance. As a person with autism, I'm more rational and fact-based than emotional and feeling-based, and my speech has been described as monotone or unmodulated. In high school, some of the kids called me "robot" and "tape recorder." That's part of why I related to HAL, the sentient computer who, with his steady voice and hyper-logic, helps the astronauts with their mission (until he doesn't).