Michael Vassar (from 2004) is quoted at length at Less Wrong, on the problems of Friendly AI, a snippet:

If you can’t make people change, and you can’t make an AI, what can you do to avoid being killed? As I said, I don’t know. It’s a good bet that money would help …

(The whole piece is a gem, although he rejects the “go raving blithering Cthulhu-worshiping mad and try to build an artificial intelligence” option, for reasons I’m not entirely clear about.)