Originally posted on 04/05/2018:

In 1984 I attended an IBM arranged talk by an Indian AI expert called Vishwanath something.

He was decades ahead of the world in the field and I walked out planning to become a Lisp expert (the main language of AI at the time)

But one of the main things he was concerned about was that the end game of AI was autonomous weapons and that humans would be redundant, which he estimated would happen within 50 years, by the 2030s, unless properly planned for.

He was talking about proper laws and an ethical framework being badly needed over 30 years ago and said the biggest barrier is that the population will never believe it is possible until they see it has happened.