[T-A]

One sentence in that article made me do a double take: "He was learning to code." Past tense, but it's about what Bostrom was doing at the time of the interview (last year, well after the publication of "Superintelligence").

So the most influential AI doomsayer on the planet has been writing about artificial minds for a couple of decades, without even knowing enough to get a computer to say "Hello, world"? OK...

[theoh]

I believe a key factor in AI doomsayers' thinking is the interconnectedness, complexity and automation of an AI-driven world. The actual presence of intelligence is a red herring: we already have problems with complex automatic systems failing catastrophically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003