[T]he public will persist in imagining that any black box that can do
that (whatever the latest AI accomplishment is) must be an intelligent
agent much like a human being, when in fact what is inside the box is a
bizarrely truncated, two-dimensional fabric that gains its power
precisely by not adding the overhead of a human mind, with all its
distractability, worries, emotional commitments, memories, allegiances.
It is not a humanoid robot at all but a mindless slave, the latest
advance in auto-pilots....
The real danger, then, is not machines that are more intelligent than we
are usurping our role as captains of our destinies. The real danger is
basically clueless machines being ceded authority far beyond their
competence.
-- Daniel C. Dennett. "The Singularity -- an Urban Legend?"
Edge 2015 : WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MACHINES THAT THINK?
(Jan 2015) http://edge.org/responses/q2015