Full Idea
AI machines have four types of unpredictability: they can't predict radical innovation or future maths proofs; they couldn't predict the outcome of their own decisions; their relations with other computers would be a game-theory tangle; and power failure.
Gist of Idea
AI can't predict innovation, or consequences, or external relations, or external events
Source
Alasdair MacIntyre (After Virtue: a Study in Moral Theory [1981], Ch. 8)
Book Reference
MacIntyre,Alasdair: 'After Virtue: a Study in Moral Theory' [Duckworth 1982], p.95
A Reaction
This isn't an assertion that they lack 'free will', just a very accurate observation of how the super new machines would face exactly the same problems that we ourselves face.