Google on Artificial-Intelligence Panic: Get a Grip
Of course Google would say something like this, they are the ones spearheading the robot revolution.
"On existential risk, our perspective is that it’s become a real distraction from the core ethics and safety issues, and it’s completely overshadowed the debate," Suleyman said. "The way we think about AI is that it’s going to be a hugely powerful tool that we control and that we direct, whose capabilities we limit, just as you do with any other tool that we have in the world around us, whether they’re washing machines or tractors. We’re building them to empower humanity and not to destroy us."
