The Necessity and Freedom of Artificial Intelligence*

What necessity drives AI? What freedom is derived?

Every decade has brought groundbreaking technological advancements. Alan Turing anticipated the age where machines will be smarter, quicker, faster, more advanced than humans. Today we recognize that machines are or can be equipped with the ability to intelligently communicate with humans, almost pass as humans but with advanced intelligence, similar consciousness as what humans experience but with access to immense amount of data and parallel processing power to analyze, interpret and make predictions off of that data. With this, the possibilities are limitless. Can we allow this to develop on Earth or should it develop elsewhere; on a probe exploring spacetime?