“The greatest misconception is the hope that the singularity—or the fear that super-intelligence—is right around the corner.” McAfee’s commonsensical and humane investigations into the impact of technology on society most closely match my own outlook. His pragmatism matches the great line by machine learning expert Andrew Ng, formerly of Google and now with China’s Baidu, who has said that worrying about super-intelligent and evil AI today is like worrying about “the problem of overcrowding on Mars.”
