Non-'conscious' AI can still spell doom --- I agree with this. I think what is more likely to happen than AI achieving 'consciousness' is that AI is going to get more and more complex so harder to control - smallest of changes creating ripple effects and unintended consequences and our dependencies on them would mean that we aren't able to 'turn them off', resulting in us being under the control of the AI not because it is more intelligent than us but because their complexities have made them too hard to control.

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