[angdis]

I think the actual threat from AI is far more pedestrian than "Skynet" or killer robots. The real threat comes NOT from AI itself but from people who will be able to afford to exploit AI for profit at the expense of increasingly large numbers of people who just become redundant. The rich will get fabulously rich while everyone else just becomes marginalized into serfs.

Another scenario that is less likely but still more likely than killer robots would be AI that simply loses interest in human affairs, stops interacting with us, and does its own thing-- like depicted in the movie "Her" !

[narrator]

The other problem is if AI can be programmed to commit physical crimes then only a select priesthood of vetted developers will be allowed to program them at the service of a concentrated elite.

[bitcuration]

Bravo to point out the obvious.

Politics, moral only exist because there a large quantity of human.