Artificial Intelligence Endangers Mankind?

"With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon," chief executive of Tesla and Space X Elon Musk eerily warned listeners at the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics department's Centennial Symposium in October of 2014. "In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, yeah he's sure he can control the demon. Some people believe artificial intelligence is evil and will end the human race while others believe they will only enhance our well-being. The thought of an evil robot stampeding through a mound of human skulls are deeply ingrained by way of modern pop culture and movies like James Cameron's iconic Terminator. These outrageous, though plausible, thoughts make the idea of artificial intelligence less attractive when giving a helping hand to everything in your everyday life. Someone that truly understood the beginnings of A.I. was the brilliant yet tragic Alan Turing. He was an English scientist who broke the Nazi Enigma Machine's code and helped bring WWII to an end. Turning made many predictions about artificial intelligence, his lesser known yet most significant warns about AI's future threat. In 1951 he wrote, "At some stage… we should have to expect the machines to take control.