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Re: Wake up! - was Re: note on AI

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Jan 31, 2001
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On 31 Jan 2001, at 18:41, George Henry wrote:

> 
> And http://www.zealot.com/features/archives/candave.php3 says:
> 
> <snip>
> Warwick Collins, author of Computer One, a novel based on his fears that
> computers will
> one day revolt, says that the government must establish rules on the
> attributes that
> machines can be given. He says that military computers have access to
> plutonium stores and
> biological weapons. "If computers no longer needed humans and saw them as a
> threat, they
> could, without warning, wipe us out." 
> 
> You heard it from an expert, folks. Computers could wipe us out.
> </snip>
> 
> Collins' status as a SCREENWRITER makes him an expert on computers??? Sheesh.
> 
> Anyway, Computer One is a pretty good read, and will leave poor Ferdinand
> needing much
> MORE sleep.

/me points at "Colossus, The Forbin Project" and "2001"

Kat