“Things like computer vision are starting to work; speech recognition is starting to work There’s quite a bit of acceleration in the development of AI systems. And that’s making it more urgent to look at this issue.” Wired’s Robert Mcmillan on the arrival of AI and why that really worries the world’s brightest minds.

+ Steven Levy: Google search will be your next brain. (Which is really only good news if your last brain was Ask Jeeves.)