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This all sounds nice except for one thing. It's not clear that "AI" can exist without programmers. There's a bit of a rule of thumb about a system not being able to create a thing more complex than itself, which means that even the best machine learning systems need human laborers to care for it.

Of course, much of that human labor will be essentially slave labor, much like the social media and recommendation systems simply use inputs taken from millions of user interactions, but some of it will have to be expert.

For example "the system produces an optimal solution to the secure communications problem". OK, but how is it determined that the solution is optimal? The system cannot within itself prove it is optimal (Gödel's incompleteness theorem), so something external to the system must be involved.