Along with Bill Gates, who has an agenda of remaking the world, in his own image, or according to his own agenda, we have another, much more likeable, at least at a surface level, technocrat, Elon Musk. He has been said to be funky and “with it,” unlike Gates, who is at best dry. But in many ways, both are threats. Musk warns that out of control AI poses an existential threat to humanity, and there he goes, building the foundations of the very thing he is warning against. The sort of AI that will emerge from the endgame of his neural net endeavours will be alien to human thought processes, and if it is right that it will surpass humans, then there is a clear existential threat, as the AI will see humans as competitors. And, as in the Terminator movies, you can be sure that nuclear weapons systems will be AI controlled, which will seem like a good thing to do at the time.