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I think it's vastly overblown. For AI to be scary we would have to connect it to some real outputs. If somebody makes a general AI and let's win in go or tic-tac-toe over everyone so what? If it's going to govern our FB feed or optimize some logistics, that's great! If we let AI decide whether we should go to war that's a problem, but that's not gonna happen for quite a while.

If you want to be scared of technology worry about CRISPR instead. Very easy to do, lots of people have the basic knowledge how to do it. It's only a question of time until a terrorist picks it up. It's easy to buy viruses with safeguards against spreading built in. With CRISPR it's possible (ok not easy but possible) to remove the safeguards and change the immune system signature. BAM a new epidemic.