[salient]

Which often doesn't end well.

[jodrellblank]

It "often doesn't end well"? It hasn't ever happened!

Stories about it often end in a way that makes for a good story. That's not saying the same thing at all.

[noblethrasher]

Well, he did say "sci-fi" robots.

[hershel]

There's a basis in reality for those. many powerful technologies have been used in the fast for "evil".

[sophacles]

I would go further and say "all" rather than "many". However there is the real question of: on the balance - does this help more than it hurts.

Additionally just the very act of being concerned about misuses helps mitigate them.

[n09n]

And many have been used for good. The technology itself doesn't have any will of it's own. People just use it. And people do both good and evil.

[Raphael]

Until it does have a will of its own.

[n09n]

Not likely. We're software developers, not soulware developers.

[DanAndersen]

Without making judgments about the motivations behind this statement, I just wanted to link to the LessWrong article on The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence: http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generaliza...

[eli_gottlieb]

Actually, I think in this case, the LessWrong types must have some rather strong words for Google. Starting with "PAPERCLIP" and "DON'T".