Artificial Intelligence as a precipitator of Doomsday.

The Fifth Generation by Pamela McCorduck and Edward A. Feigenbaum published 1983 delves deep into the problems of artificial intelligence (AI) and the perceived dominance of Japan in the race for the supercomputer that mimics human intelligence. McCorduck had already published a book, Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of [...]