Watson's Goof -- What We Should Really Fear from AI

It was a telling response, revealing the idiot inside the savant. But the game went on. As the final round ended, Ken Jennings, one of the champions IBM's Watson machine bested, jokingly welcomed "our new computer overlords." But will a new supreme intelligence arise from the likes of Watson, overtaking and perhaps even subjecting humans? Or, perhaps, in fearing the one thing, have we missed something more important?

IBM created Watson for one purpose: Win at Jeopardy. They conquered chess i...