Q Please exercise your capacity to find information on your own using a search engine such as Google, DuckDuckGo, or something else like that thing referred to as "Bing". You are required to find or you are also free to imagine, without citing any sources here. If you saw it in a movie, and it impacted your thinking it may well be useful to your classmates :) The question for you to answer in your post is: Why Have Gates, Musk, and Hawking Called A.I. "The Greatest Threat to Humanity"? You may want to search for more than the names within the question, and gather background details. Some people may get on a tangent which is not necessarily unreasonable in itself. For the sake of tangential details, as well as direct answers to the question posed. Here are some terms to search for: • Existential threat • Mass surveillance • Project PRISM • Edward Snowden • Project Paperclip • Manufacturing Consent • Noam Chomsky • modeling human behavior (via supercomputer) • Myanmar Facebook • computing capacity of the U.S. government • difference between funding by governments of China and U.S. for research into A.I. • Number and distribution of military installations on earth under the control of the U.S. military • Pineal gland Feel free to conduct your own hypothetical thought experiment, for example: synthesize your own prediction of how slaughter bots could be deployed through the combination of a few of these (historical or present-day) examples listed above. Your post must be no shorter than 200 words, and follow every applicable CBC rule of classroom conduct. I will summarize the rules in this sentence: Be especially sensitive to others, and very supportive of their right to think for themselves, and never take civil discourse into the direction of speaking disrespectfully about or toward any being. Please take the freedom to form your own thoughts, and add relevant details which you feel are important for the continuation of life on earth, we share this responsibility together and need diversity of thought to thrive collectively.