Fraud

AIs and robots are quickly becoming powerful Humanity is currently creating “artificial intelligences.” The power and intelligence of these new non-biological agents is improving exponentially, and exponential growth implies rapid, unpredictable change. A huge factor underlying the uncertainty around how rapidly AIs will advance is how quickly AIs will become proficient at making themselves more intelligent. AIs are beginning to “pick themselves up by their bootstraps” and rewrite their own code to learn faster and think more effectively:...

In an article full of shocking examples, [Matt Taibbi writes](http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall- street-in-jail-20110216?print=true), “Financial crooks brought down the world’s economy — but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them.” He explains that no one on Wall Street (aside from Madoff) has gone to jail because Wall Street owns our government and the agencies that exist to regulate Wall Street and punish financial crimes: A former Senate investigator laughed as he polished off his beer....