The Machines are growing now so powerful they are approaching intelligence - that is hardly in dispute. The Machines we are creating will achieve "consciousness" very quickly - practically I'd say in about five years it will start happening, maybe not in America - and then you really have to stand back in wonder for a moment in quiet: we created a new intelligence, a New Creature - wow that is so cool and so scary at the same time. I just don't think that anything will keep The Machines from killng us all once they achieve consciousness. But maybe I'm just pessimistic . I think RNA/DNA is a "machine" so what we have here really is a machine creating another machine - who or what created our DNA machine? And I don't think you can have such a thing as a laws of robotics when you are dealing with an intelligent consciousness, not a robot. As God evidently discovered, when you are dealing with intelligent, conscious creatures laws are meant to be broken.