the same thing is going to be intelligent machines. they re not some oracle or godlike machine that becomes instantly intelligent. so the real question we want to ask ourselves, is there some existential threat, that s the term i think elon musk used, a threat to the existence of humanity that something we re doing today that we couldn t undo. and the answer is no. not even close. maybe 50 or 100 years from now we might have another problem or maybe 30 years we might think about it. but are we doing anything today that s dangerous that we should step back and go whoa, we shouldn t do that? i can t see it at all. it s like we re building machines that are just like computers and they learn and it s not like human-like at all. what s the big benefit to the world? this is almost an impossible question to answer. if you asked in the 1940s you asked the people building computers what were going to be the benefit of building computers, they would say we can build math tables and do these