Here’s an oddly worded and frantic letter to Melissa Hathaway, Cybersecurity Chief at the National Security Council, by some DailyKos blogger:

The Cyberspace Policy Review neglects to consider the range of threats from the impending instantiation of Artificial [General] Intelligence (“AGI”), and the emerging proliferation of practical Brain/Computer Interface (“BCI”) technology in mass-market consumer electronics devices [such as the $300 Emotiv EPOC].

These developments, which are no longer speculative, and not merely inevitable but which are actually already in the process of happening in realtime, represent far greater danger to human life than the sum total of all other cybersecurity threats, combined.

The rapid – and exponentially accelerating – development of AGI and BCI technologies will lead to a cognitive convergence of Man and Machine, probably before the end of this Administration’s term in office. Technologies which enable full-scale human brain emulation in Silicon, which, in 2005 were predicted by Kurzweil to evolve by 2048, were believed by technology insiders – as of last October – as likely to become available by 2018, and perhaps even sooner.

Which “technology insiders”? Why is “Silicon” capitalized? Some odd thinking in this letter, although I agree that AGI/BCI “represent far greater danger to human life than the sum total of all other cybersecurity threats, combined.”