Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI

In Harlan Ellison’s disturbing 1967 short story “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream,” a sentient superintelligence named AM has taken over the earth’s resources and exterminated humanity after combining the powers of three US, Soviet, and Chinese supercomputers into one. A small group of survivors has been kept alive for AM’s amusement, forced to roam the supercomputer’s endless electronic innards.

It’s a grim setting, but evidently one that billionaire tech tycoon and former Google CEO Eric…