Stanford economist @pawtrammell warns that letting machines own themselves leads to a Malthusian future where self-replicating bots burn all the energy in the universe: "There are so-called successionists who think that if the AIs are just sort of better than us in every way, if they're more intelligent, if they're sentient and able to feel more happiness than we can, then we should just turn the world over to them." "Obviously, groups of intelligent beings don't necessarily achieve outcomes…