its closer than we think

[Skean Dhude]

Like everything else we do we make things that try and replicate us. When we develop nanobots, much closer than AI, we will make them able to do anything programmed by the user. That is where it goes wrong as people can then use it to do things we don't want and they go out of control. imo Nanobots should have a limited span outside of the test tube and never be programmable outside the lab. So we would have nanobots to cure cancer, clean our teeth, clean our arteries etc. but not one to do all of these things.

AI is no different. If we had an AI in a box like computers that we used to manage our planet or a subset thereof but it didn't control things just gave instructions that we would be able to check as we followed the instructions. It's not perfect as one of Asimovs stories shows us but better than the alternative. Of course we will plug ours in, after all what could possibly go wrong.

Ture AI is a while away. What we have now is nothing but fast processing.