Comment Re:programming (Score 1) 417
If artificial intelligence emerged from artificial life it would be a competitor if we were so idiot to link the simulation in which the entity originated to the real world.
And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." Genesis 3:22
If OTOH AI is designed like watson, it is indeed improbable that a malfunction leads to skynet. The human assisted AI is much more likely to end up in extermination, in fact it's happening as we speak.