Will rapidly advancing technology make us primitive in the long run?

[Master_of_the_Faster]

Originally Posted by devonin

Why would a robot, concluding that it was more intelligent than a human, somehow be moved to destroy it? We keep around all -kinds- of things that are less smart than us without wantonly killing them all for no reason.

I find it odd how the general assumption about aliens is that if they are super intelligent they must be peaceful and enlightened, but if it is robots, they must somehow decide to kill all humans.

I think that people get the impression that robots can be made or hacked into evil beings. You wouldn't have to be smart in order to kill someone (perhaps you would need to be smart to get away with it in certain cases though). I would say that an alien (if it exists) could be just as bad as an evil robot for the same reasons that there are bad humans. Any real argument that states that aliens are more friendly than robots is an unjustified argument because there is no evidence for now.