http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/artificial-universe-no-mans-sky/463308/
“One might be the idea of an afterlife,” he said. “From a naturalistic understanding, when we die we basically rot. But if we are in a simulation, if you stop the program, you can restart it again. You can take data created by one program and enter it into another without violating any laws of nature.”
“If this world is a simulation,” I asked, “What does that say about our creators?”
http://www.engadget.com/2016/02/17/xprize-ibm-ai/
“The purpose of the XPRIZE is to directly address the dystopian narrative we’ve been seeing in artificial intelligence,” says Stephanie Wander, a Prize Development Associate and lead designer of the A.I. XPRIZE. She’s specifically referring to the horror stories we often see in movies depicting A.I. as untrustworthy entities. “We feel it’s important to address it because we believe that artificial intelligence will enable us to address the world’s most difficult and challenging issues.”