Comment by quakeguy

"Marvin Minsky ("Father" of AI at MIT) made the bold claim in 70s that we will be marrying robots by 2000."

I admit, not the year 2000 and overly snarky, but people do marry computers nowadays. [0]

If we think it is what is(the computer controlled mask), we start to believe it really is what it is, a mind(controlling a mask).

Humans are capable of high degrees of auto-suggestion, up to a point where groups of people, and their dynamics, come into play, and some kind of group-thinking, a cult maybe for lack of a better term, takes over.

At this point all is believable, maybe not so far away. We may trick us into a false AI, not a GAI in any sense mind you, and get stuck with it, because most of us wanted it. And rest rest has been silenced already, that is very easy, as we all know already today.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvEkEhl999g