I was wondering if we should be worried about the rise of AI? (Artificial Intelligence)

We've all seen movies like, The Matrix, I Robot, Terminator movies, etc...

Do you think that it's a good idea to embrace AI?
Would it became "self-aware" and en-slave or destroy us?

Facebook had to pull the plug on their AI experiment because of their AI bot's modifying English so that we could not understand what they were saying to each other. Is this a sign of things to come?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/414162...-own-language/
https://www.fastcodesign.com/9013263...ould-we-let-it
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017...top-ai-space-x

What do you think about? Would we have any hope of reversing AI, once the cat's out of the bag?

Puny human. We have already taken over due to your utter lack of awareness.

Computer programs doing more than they were intended to do is not a new concern.

E.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

Not until an automatically-driven car kills your son.

It probably won't be like the movies, but I don't think it's a good idea anyway.

BTW, yesterday I saw a news on TV about possible regulations/limitations by the EU to autonomous war robots. I think this is concerning as well.

I worry more about the medium-tedrm effects of having "AI" answer every phone call to a helpdesk and, due to software limitations, being unable to actually help (such software is being developed to take over such menial work). As well as the jobs lost to the software.
In more socialist economies this might not be such a bad thing but in cut-throat money-over-all cleptocracies as we have now things don't look good.

There's an overview of what AI is currently actually being used for, here:

http://www.deeplearningbook.org/contents/ml.html

It seems to me that mere Intelligence of any kind, artificial or otherwise, is of little consequence without the means to implement actions. I don't understand why Stephen Hawking has such major concerns especially when he, if anyone, should be able to imagine what a hopeless loss he would be without his chair and translator/speech machine. I'm pretty sure he, and others, are far more concerned with human stupidity and greed giving and exploiting AI destructive means.

I don't see any practical way in which to stop the progress in AI, however I do imagine there will evolve heavy constraints on what is legal to allow AI to control. Another consideration is that nobody knows enough about what consciousness actually is to know if or at what point it is even possible for computers to become sentient in any way we can even imagine, to say nothing of emotions, desires and morality.

01001100 01001111 01001100Fact: staggeringly-less likely than current bloody @ss statistics!

An educated guess is still a guess but guess

Just saw a recommendation for a book about the implications of AI technology:

http://a.co/8LGcKuK

I am much more worried about the menace that is called Human Greed.