 The Good-Chalmers argument has a rather clinical air about it; the argument doesn’t say anything regarding whether machines in the AI\(^{++}\) category will be benign, malicious, or munificent. Many others gladly fill this gap with dark, dark pessimism. The locus classicus here is without question a widely read paper by Bill Joy (2000): “Why The Future Doesn’t Need Us.” Joy believes that the human race is doomed, in no small part because it’s busy building smart machines. He writes: 