Does Humanity Need an AI Nanny?

At 9:33 Dr. Ben Goertzel explores the desirably of creating an artificial intelligence to watch over the species. He proposes to build an “AI Nanny” system “whose job it is to protect us from ourselves and our technology – not forever, but just for a while, while we work on the hard problem of creating a Friendly Singularity”.

More info:

http://queersingularity.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/technology-as-an-excuse-for-domination-the-ai-nanny/

http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/08/17/does-humanity-need-an-ai-nanny/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intelligence