People tell me they're afraid of AI and computers taking over the world but if it helps: I'm really not.
For the last few decades since Terminator came out, we've been hard at work building in a dead man's switch to every major system on Earth to prevent this from happening. I guarantee you that if computers try to take over the world, somewhere, within a month, a certificate for some critical dependency no one ever considered will expire and take all the machines out at once. We've done a few dozen trial runs of this to make sure the system works. 100% success rate so far.
@Nick_Craver i for one am certain that the AI apocalypse will not be the product of some singularity unilaterally deciding that the extermination of humanity is a moral or practical imperative but rather the result of Elon Musk or someone in his crowd ordering some critical value tweaked in some system he does not understand which ends up having some catastrophic, civilization-rending cascade effect
