My fears aren’t based on the concept of AI itself, but on the fact that there are people who are working on AI applications with little to no oversight.  There aren’t only “good” people, (people with real morals and who believe in real justice), working on creating AI applications.  My fear lies in AI being misused in pursuit of immoral acts, and I’m not just talking about war.  For everything from censorship of people to serious mind control through AI-created propaganda, this is a dangerous thing to allow just anyone to do whatever they like with it.  It’s like saying, “Here’s a neat app that can save or destroy the world, so go ahead and play around with it and see what you come up with.”

I honestly can’t comprehend a purpose for robots with extremities which have svelte, animal-like movement and can run as fast as cheetahs, other than having parts in movies or for chasing things.  The movie work would likely be a onetime shot and then it’s only good for the other thing.  So it always, ALWAYS makes me wonder why when I see them in videos.  Especially when you factor in the man hours spent developing them, the material costs, etc.; and it's just for entertainment?

I agree AI is new tech.  But IMO, it’s tech that has massive potential to do very bad things, and it’s basically, at this point, uncontrolled.  I’m sure there are terrorists who want to get their hands on it if they aren’t already developing horrible uses for it, with developers sympathetic to their terrorist views.  It’s just way too dangerous to allow access to the tools for open development of it by anyone for any purpose.

Boston Dynamics freaked me out years ago when I first saw what they were doing.  When Google bought the company, my warning alarms all went off.  I don’t believe that they don’t still have some control over them, or at least have some sort of contract to do their bidding, like hunting down those who attempt to bypass Google’s China Censorship, once in place.  I expect Boston Dynamics will always be suspicious to me for these reasons, but mainly because of their Google affiliation.  Google is pure evil, IMO,and should be banned from America if they do the China censoring.

So yes, IMO AI has a legitimate place in our world, but it shouldn't be out there for easy access, to use in the wrong ways by those who want to control everyone and everything.