John McAfee: What if advanced artificial intelligence hacks itself? Opinion.

On March 9, 2017, ZT, an underground technologist and writer, read his upcoming novella: Architects of the Apocalypse, to a group of his adherents in the basement of an abandoned bar in Nashville, Tennessee. The occasion was the Third Annual Meltdown Congress--an underground, invitation-only organization dedicated to the survival of the human species in the face of near certain digital annihilation. I was present, along with three of my compatriots, plus about 30 gray hat hackers (hackers or cybersecurity experts without malicious intent) who represent the cream of the American hacking community. It chronicles an age in which artificial intelligence and its adjutant automata run the world--in which humanity is free and is cared for entirely by the automata. The artificial intelligence in this novella has organized itself along hierarchical lines, and the ultimate decision-making function is called "The Recursive Decider."