“In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.”
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As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.
The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.
Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.
I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.