People fear what they don’t understand. And “exponential technologies like AI” were, in his view, a way to resolve once and for all the “failures of our ability to implement our own moral code.” Complicated details like whose moral code would be programmed into the giant floating sky brain, with its invincible legions of law enforcement drones, were best left to the most brilliant and morally upright. In short, the problem was indeed my feeble human brain.