AI: Fears of ???playing God??? [Control & Automation Artificial Intelligence]

MAN???S DESIRE to build something in his own image has a long literary history. From the animated statues of Greek myths, to the clay Golem of Jewish folklore, to Mary Shelley???s Frankenstein, alchemists, mystics and mad scientists have long been engaged in the quest for artificial sentience. Nowadays, it???s billionaire tech entrepreneurs who are tinkering where only gods should pry. At least that???s the story told by the film ???Ex Machina???, which introduces Nathan, the brilliant but reclusive CEO of the world???s largest web-search company who has lost sight of his morals in an obsessive quest to create human-level artificial intelligence (AI).