Would even an AI disaster on the scale of Hiroshima be enough to make humankind protect itself? I fear not Timothy Garton Ash

Would even an AI disaster on the scale of Hiroshima be enough to make humankind protect itself? It's clear here in Silicon Valley that AI is advancing faster than humans' ability to control it. H ere in Silicon Valley, the experts think that within the next couple of years we'll see an extraordinary takeoff for artificial intelligence. "Welcome to the foothills of the singularity," as a Stanford University friend greeted me. More prosaically, the imminent breakthrough is described as "recursive self-improvement" - the point at which AI itself trains each successive model of AI, resulting in an exponential development to something which, in many significant respects, is more intelligent than us humans.