I AM, AS MOST READERS KNOW, GENERALLY A TECHNO-OPTIMIST. But mocking Elon Musk for his fears about Artificial Intelligence is silly.

The article might have interviewed James Miller for more on what Musk is talking about. Here’s my interview with Miller. Says Miller about strong AIs: “I think the default path is that they treat us horribly.” Also, “gray goo” isn’t a AI-gone-bad scenario, it’s a nanotechnology-gone-bad scenario, and a somewhat exaggerated one.