On: Bruce Sterling talks about Alan Turing

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"[...] we should be devoting some thought to a suicidal Artificial Intelligence. Nobody does this, [...]"

Somebody did, at least in passing. I remember an SF story where AIs were only useable for about six months - they'd go catatonic afterwards.

Memory fails me about details, not even the writer's name.

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Stanislaw Lem has written some brilliant stories (and book reviews of fictional books) about artificial intelligence going off the deep end:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem_XIV

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaw_Lem%27s_fictitious_cr...

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And how about https://sites.google.com/site/asenselessconversation.