[cripplecreek]

"Reasoning and logic are one thing, but beyond that is true intelligence -- what we call sentience," Babak Hojat, cofounder and chief scientist at Sentient Technologies," tells EE Times.

"Sentience is being aware, having perceptions, being mindful, and has implications of autonomy,"

People who fear robots becoming more intelligent than us and killing us really haven't been able to effectively explain why they would want to.

Conflict over resources is one of the explanations I've heard but that doesn't make much sense. After all, intelligent robots could manufacture themselves to survive in environments that are well beyond what we can survive in. If they were that much more intelligent they would simply leave earth and open up the vast resources of the universe for themselves without the risk of a conflict.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Why would robots want to destroy the human race? For the same reason we destroy our enemies...they are a threat to our continue existence. Robots would not look kindly on humans unplugging their source of power.

[BlackAdderess]

If we are deemed irrational, are capable of atrocities (pulling a plug out of the wall for example), and are bumbling around making a mess (subjective) of things, wouldn’t there be, from some perspectives, a better use of resources? There are already some human beings who regard the mass of humanity as vermin. That would be the danger I think, that we could be put in the same category as rats and cockroaches.

[BlackAdderess]

I mean, just look at the first interactions of artificial intelligence with humanity (as laboratory subject), and subsequent interactions (as slave). Who’s going to look kindly on that sort of thing?