During World War II, the scientific community was tricked into committing one of the worst crimes in history - the creation of atomic weapons.
Now it appears that today's members of that community are being tricked into committing an even worse crime - the creation of artificial super-intelligence (ASI).
But there still may be hope for humanity. Thousands of Google employees are rebelling against their company's cooperation with the US military. You can read about it here:
https://www.activistpost.com/2018/04/in-letter-to-ceo-1000s-of-google-employees-revolt-against-military-drone-project.html
That really is the ONLY way humanity can be saved: if everyone capable of designing and producing such dangerous inventions stands up and says NO, WE ARE NOT GOING TO DO THIS.
If not, our demise will follow ... as night follows day. ASI will crush us like a bug, and with as little compassion as we feel when we do the same thing.
Here is another discussion of this issue:
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