so you're implying the tornado warning system is gonna come alive and skynet us?
* must protect from adverse events * [proceeds to herd us into camps]
* must protect from adverse events * [proceeds to herd us into camps]
but I digress - the main thing: these systems are not alive. They pretend to be.
The harder science looks, the harder it is to properly define this world without leaving things we'd consider alive out of the definition. Same goes for the word intelligent.
Set theory is a bitch in complex systems.