Our enemy Peter Thiel explains how machinism has slowed down:
Star investor Peter Thiel tells Gartner Symposium attendees why we shouldn't be so focused on buzzwords like the Internet of Things, cloud, or big data.
Not to downplay the danger of AI, but I see it as far less dangerous than innovation in the atomic world, which has yielded the most destructive weapon known to mankind, namely the atomic bomb itself. As long as our enemies don't develop machines that can outdo this, we can buy ourselves some time.