With recent advances in the fields of machine learning and Artificial Intelligence, it seems we may be headed toward the development of an artificial “superintelligence” which would vastly exceed the intellectual capacities of humans. The question of whether such a potential “superintelligence” poses an existential threat to us is a controversial topic with direct influence on current trends in the development of AI and the funding of AI research, not to mention its potential bearing on our future as a human species.