Jeff Hawkins: “Similarly, today it is tempting to imagine that intelligent machines will look like humans, perform human-like tasks, converse with humans, and have human-like desires and emotions. If you believe that intelligent machines will be like us, only much smarter, then they might evolve in ways we can’t predict and treat us badly. Such machines, out of a desire for self-preservation, autonomy or just misguided beliefs, could actively or inadvertently do great harm to humankind. I do not share these worries, because they are based on three misconceptions.”