Singularity Nirvana: We Can Not Solve Our Own Problems?

Some people are optimistic about our future because (the thinking goes) some computer scientists and computer engineers will create artificial intelligences that are smarter than us that will build machines even smarter in a rapid loop which will result in intelligences orders of magnitude greater than ours. Then these machines will solve all our problems. One assumption in this scenario is that these AI machines will stay friendly to us. I'm seriously skeptical about this assumption. How friendly are we to bacteria or molds or even a tree or rat? This is not an original observation on my part. Lots of people are afraid that AI machines will go hostile on us. Movies (can you say "Terminator"? sure) have explored...
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