Richard Dawkins: A.I. Might Run the World Better Than Humans Do | Big Think

Richard Dawkins: A.I. Might Run the World Better Than Humans Do New videos DAILY: Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Dawkins has made a career out of hypothesizing and articulating ideas that move the world forward, insomuch as many of those ideas could be called “ahead of their time.“ Having said that, he tells us here that we might be living in the dawn of not just artificial intelligence but of a silicon civilization that will look back on this time period as the dawn of their kind. They could one day, Dawkins suggests, study us the same way that we studied other beings that once ruled the earth. Sound crazy? Open your mind and think about it. Dawkins isn’t that far off from a potential actuality on this planet. Richard Dawkins’ new book is Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist