Why SuperIntelligent AI Will Kick Ass – Hacker Noon

Apparently capitalism is collapsing, North Korea will nuke us all, and a total environmental breakdown will turn the whole world into a bad Mad Max rerun. Oh yeah and superintelligent machines will rise up and kill us all. It all reminds me of Harold Camping, the doomsday guru who took out ads saying the world would end on May 21, 2011. It must be right around the corner. If we keep predicting Armageddon via sun spots, evil machines and the plague, eventually maybe we'll be right. Hey, even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in awhile. But the more I look at things, the more I think we're firmly in the grip of a mass hysteria of epic proportions, magnified by the megaphone of the Internet. HINT: Capitalism is fine, it's just evolving into something that works better for everyone, as it should (care of the mind blowing power of cryptocurrencies); North Korea is not nuking shit because they know they won't exist the very next day; and I'm betting on brilliant kids like Boyan Slat, renewable energy and plain old "necessity as the mother of invention" to stave off Mad Max. You have firm evidence that if we don't act fast it's all over for us!