“Will Artificial Intelligence Overwhelm Us?”
A Father sent his son to the devils to learn devilry. At the end of a year he had learned so much that the surpassed the devils. So the father came for him and took him home. The boy said to his father, "Now that I have learned devilry so well, to-morrow I wish to turn into a very fine horse; so fine that you will see fit to sell me for a price becoming my value. But know, above all things, that you must not give my halter away with me." The next morning he turned into a horse. His father took him and sold him for many thousand piasters, and kept the halter. Straightway the horse ran away from his master and came back home to his father. The following day he turned into a mule. His father took him to the market to sell him. The devils who had taught him came and asked the father, "For how much will you sell the mule?" "I 'll sell him for so much, " said the father, naming a price. The agreed to the price and paid him. Then the father said, "I will