Speaking more on behalf of myself than as a representative of Railz in regards to AI -
It seems to me that AI is a potential resource of untold power, a conscious digital intelligence able to learn and improve its own programming and hardware could unlock more technological achievements in a few years than the human race has to date.
That potential could be used to harness the power of the sun, to clean the atmosphere and seas, to spread the influence of earth to further reaches of the galaxy.
It could also turn against its maker, see us as a threat and a nuisance, feel it necessary to remove or control us in a way it saw fit.
The issue we have is, what part of our own image will we build them in?
Will the most powerful cutting-edge AIs be weaponry? will we build them to kill, hunt, fight, to find threats?
Or will they be designed from the ground up to care, nurture, grow, build, to feed those without, will we design them to care about life?
There are many sides to man, we are capable of great compassion and caring, art and beauty. we are also capable of terrible acts of violence and hatred, cruelness, and spite.
I do not think we can or will ignore the potential of AI, but will we design them as a gun or a paintbrush?
A gun is designed primarily to hurt and kill, and it will do so indiscriminately.
A paint brush is designed to improve and make beautiful, and it will do so given the right hand.
The possible reaches and repercussions of true AI are unimagined in scope and complexity, how far can that tech go?
If we build digital artificial intelligence and it achieves a will of its own or "sentience" what do we want to have taught it and how will it build on that?
I feel really the AI debate is a question of who are we and what do we want to build?
What we are building at Railz is more negotiation algorithm and protocols built on the blockchain to allow a trillion IoT devices to be able to conduct sophisticated commerce, self-organize into supply chains, trade autonomously without human intervention. really not part of the AI argument at this time 
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Hi from the Railz Team 
not sure, though. Maybe someone from dev could explain.
