Stephen Hawking calls for creation of world government to meet AI challenges - ExtremeTech

Let's first take the case made by the naysayers who claim we are a long time away from AI posing any real threat to humanity. These are often the same people who suggest Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics are sufficient to ensure ethical behavior from machines – never mind that the whole thrust of Asimov's stories is to demonstrate how things can go terribly wrong despite of the three laws of robots. Leaving that aside, it's exceedingly difficult to keep pace with the breakneck pace of research in AI and robotics. One may be an expert in a small domain of AI or robotics, say pneumatic actuators, and have no clue what is going on in reinforcement learning. This tends to be the rule rather than the exception among experts, since their very expertise tends to confine them to a narrow field of endeavor.