Bill Gates Joins Stephen Hawking in Fears of a Coming Threat from "Superintelligence"

Bill Gates has jumped into the fray over concerns of a coming machine superintelligence. He did so in a recent Q&A at reddit, reports TechRadar:

Gates was asked: "How much of an existential threat do you think machine superintelligence will be?"

He admitted: "I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence." He took a somewhat more measured stance than Hawking, but sees AI as a real concern.

"First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That shoul...