Nobel Prize awarded to ‘godfather of AI’ who warned it could wipe out humanity
(www.independent.co.uk)
The nobel prize comitte has since long abandoned Nobel's will in this matter
How long? Wouldn't this just kind of suggest that criteria is simply different at this point? Maybe complex electronic devices didn't exist back then, so one can really only guess as to what he would think. Because he's been dead for a very long time...
The prize is named after the dude, he doesn't get to decide the rules of its award in perpetuity.