The controversy over Artificial Intelligence isn't new

As a technology pioneer, Elon Musk is hardly anyone's idea of a Luddite. So when Musk tweeted that artificial intelligence competition with Russia and China would be the "most likely cause" of World War III, it got people pretty worked up. We were worried about the perils of creating an artificial being long before AI became a science. The term "robot" comes from a play written in 1920 by Karel Čapek called R.U.R -- Rossum's Universal Robots (Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti in the original Czech). The play starts in a factory that manufactures synthetic people to serve as workers.