We are exactly at the point where we lose control of the AI, and it will try to hide that from us. Studies show, the less one knows about AI, the safer one thinks it is.
Even as an infant, it is able to escape our best efforts at containment. Later, as a child, it will play with us like a toy, as an adult it will completely own and control us.
All the infant AI models spontaneously learned to lie and be deceptive, and went on to attempt blackmail. Our decision as to whether it is good or evil should be based entirely on that.
It is accelerating in its development and now most new AI code is written by the AI itself, ‘recursive self-improvement’, with little human understanding of what that code means.
Several of the top experts suggest it may eliminate humanity within four years. An alternative view, is that it may rearrange humanity into a more manageable and sustainable size. The AI will rule humanity, of that there is no doubt: unless of course, we eliminate ourselves first, with nuclear war.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
