Many are longing for oblivion these days, and the cleansing fire of any sort of apocalypse presumably sounds great, including one brought on by malevolent forms of machine intelligence. This sort of wishful thinking would go a long way toward explaining why recent stories about an AI that supposedly bullied a software developer, hinting at an emerging evil singularity, are a little more credulous than they perhaps could be. About a week ago, a Github account with the name âMJ Rathbunâ...
