Hiring expert programmers is trivially easy compared to making the conceptual breakthroughs required for AGI and Friendly AI.
Making a general-purpose intelligent agent is mostly a software engineering problem.
It will probably take programmers to solve it—since they are the most experienced at solving such problems.
That doesn’t solve the problem of what to do with such an agent, of course. That is not so much a software engineering problem.
Hiring expert programmers is trivially easy compared to making the conceptual breakthroughs required for AGI and Friendly AI.
Making a general-purpose intelligent agent is mostly a software engineering problem.
It will probably take programmers to solve it—since they are the most experienced at solving such problems.
That doesn’t solve the problem of what to do with such an agent, of course. That is not so much a software engineering problem.