Maybe Skynet will not be our future. Maybe artificial intelligence will not be the machines that disdainfully wipe us out, but instead, will be the long-awaited "little child" who finally leads our species out of its vicious cycles of violence, red in tooth and claw. I had an interesting thought while - appropriately - sitting on a beach by Malibu watching the red sun sink into the sea... Humans evolved as prey animals. According to Sapiens author, Yuval Harari, for a whoppingly overwhelming majority of our evolution, we were bear and tiger food. And so we developed the quick-twitch fight-or flight reactivity of prey animals, always on guard.