Stormy days ahead

Met up with some old friends in Stirling for afternoon tea. We commiserate about the topsy-turvy world we live in, and came to the conclusion that we have had the best of times with the future looking so uncertain.
 
Yes AI was top of our agenda sparked by this article in yesterday's Guardian, which looked at the future-utopia or dystopia?
The world leading scientists in this field were asked for their opinion.
 
Here is a sample:
“We are building more and more powerful systems that we understand less well as time goes on. We are in the position of needing the first rocket launch to go very well, while having only built jet planes previously. And the entire human species is loaded into the rocket.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, co-founder and research fellow, Machine Intelligence Research Institute