Artificial Intelligence is better than no intelligence

We hear much about artificial intelligence these days and the threats it might hold for our future (and little about the opportunities). However, like the most pernicious threats facing the world; global warming, resource depletion, the destruction of natural habitats it's all a few decades off so why, some short-sighted observers might say, worry? However, forget maybe the threat of artificial intelligence, how about the nearer term threat caused by the reluctance of our political elite to apply their intelligence (it must be there?). Even by the usual standards of politics recent events across the Western World seem breathtakingly disappointing. I woke up last weekend.