Ray Kurzweil responds to fears by Hawking, Gates, and Musk about the rise of strong A.I.

James Bedsol interviewed Ray Kurzweil, one of the world's leading minds on artificial intelligence, technology and futurism, in his Google office in Mountain View, CA, February 15, 2017. Kurzweil is one of the world's leading minds on artificial intelligence, technology and futurism. He is the author of five national best-selling books, including "The Singularity is Near" and "How to Create a Mind." Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil is an American author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist. Aside from futurology, he is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments.