“The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance,” ― Carl Sagan, 1995, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown and, Oxford University’s Nick Bostrom, one of the world’s leading philosophers, believes that within the next 50 or 100 years, an AI might know more than the entire population of the planet. At that point,will control almost every connected device on the planet — will somehow rise in status to become more like a god.