Too Long; Didn't Read
This quote is from a blog post titled <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-hawking/artificial-intelligence_b_5174265.html" target="_blank">Transcending Complacency on Superintelligent Machines</a> published back in 2014. It is how a quartet of prestigious scientists framed our current attitudes to the risk that developments in artificial intelligence will give rise to artificial superintelligence (ASI). They suggest our response would not be so calm to the idea of aliens arriving — and neither should our response to the effectively alien superintelligence that AI will produce.