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There are ways to greatly improve chances that AI will be beneficial to humanity rather than otherwise.

Check out: UC Berkeley's Center for Human-Compatible AI, led by Prof. Stuart Russell, a co-author of the field's standard textbook. [1] He just gave a TED talk on the issue [2].

Several other noted researchers in AI are working on the issue as well.

For a short primer: https://futureoflife.org/background/aimyths/

[1] http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-ri...

[2] https://www.ted.com/talks/stuart_russell_how_ai_might_make_u...