Spawn decided last night that he wanted to watch the 20/20 special on the top 7 ways the world could end. I felt extremely validated that #6 was Robots taking over the world, since this is something that I have believed for a very long time.
But it wasn’t simply the inclusion of the Coming Robot Rebellion on the list that validated me, it was seeing Stephen Hawking, the most brilliant man alive, state that he believed that robots could have the capacity and intelligence to take over the world within the next hundred years. There are also hundreds of computer scientists specializing in AI who agree with this assessment and caution that care should be taken when improving upon exisitng technologies.
So mock me if you must, but I am in VERY good company with my paranoid science-fiction theories.