I predict that AI or SI as i prefer to define it, wont be the best or worst thing to happen to humanity
It will simply be the next thing that happens to humanity.
I agree that AI will be developed and the consequences for that will be enormous. It's highly unlikely that a world whose top power brokers have built an economy based on central banks and warfare will lead to the silly childish ideas of a Utopian world that I have read by unthinking boobs: Quite the reverse should be fully expected. To begin with lets just bring up an every day problem, which is crime and the threat of crime in our daily lives.
An axiom of crime is that crime follows the potential pathways of it's expression. AI /SI is a pathway to criminal activity. It is to open a door to world of crime which we have no prior experience dealing with in any real capacity and the consequences for that will be profound.
Anything you can imagine a robotic SI/AI could do, it will do, and that's a virtual promise because the intelligence will be merely and extension of human mind. No safe guard will ever prevent another human from cracking the code. Anything build by a human can be undone by a human and there's no way around that, so what then? Do we have AI doing it's own security?
The fox in the hen house? I mean good lord can you get any dumber?
So while everyone is constructing evil plots, what they aren't paying a lot of attention to are the potentials to which a synthetic intelligence can be exploited for crime. Really there's not much which I can think of that is more attractive than an artificial intelligence when it comes to enhancing and enabling wide spread criminal activity.
I mean it's just wonderful. Need someone killed? Great send a AI bot and then have it paddle a boat out to a deep hole and jump overboard. Want to abduct a kid, send an AI bot, or how about those noisy neighbors? Too bad they gone missing huh? Just let your imagination go and see what you can come up with your own self.
Then there's the military and how that's gonna work I can't say, but I can say that this also means that anyone else can start their own private army. Think we have problems now? Just wait because we haven't seen anything yet. How about that intelligence too, a machine which could build an atomic bomb, maybe even a hydrogen bomb, and won't ever have to worry about being contaminated and dying from handling radioactive materials. Not to mention what an AI robot could do with just a hack saw blade and a file. I'm pretty sure gun grabber can just forget all their delusions because a machine like that could produce any other machine which is as primitive as a firearm, and it could probably do that in a day or less. So ya know, what are we going to do when robots have the potential to tear off steel doors, make any weapon mankind has stupidly invented, not to mention that it's going to take a direct hit from an RPG to damage one enough to prevent it from doing whatever it's been sent to do? Hell, ya probably end up blowing yourself to Kingdom Come just trying to slow one down. Probably want a gun just so's you can blow your own brains out before it pulls you apart 14th century style, and that's probably not actually a joke to be quite truthful.
So ya know, AI/SI is just mass marketing a pipe dream, an idea of Utopia, without ever bothering to consider just how crazy and insane this whole idea really is and it is seriously crazy. It's at least as insane as nuclear power if not a hell of lot more so. I'll bet that in the end AI/SI will end up doing exactly the opposite of everything these idiots are now claiming it will do to help us, and I can say that because their marketing hype is very familiar.
I've heard the same story how much "they is going to help me" more times than you can imagine. It's the same damned story the Nuclear Nut Jobs used to mouth; telling us all how cheap electricity would become, and how wonderful this would be, and how we can all hold hands and sing Kumbaya, never mentioning that is the song we will all sing just before blowing our own brains out to end the misery of radiation or something similar that they told us was going to do so much to help us.
Why is it that the solution to our problems is more of the same and or more but worse versions of the same? Huh, ya ever think about that one? Do we really need this because I know I don't, and I'm also pretty sure it isn't going to do one damn thing for me , not personally other than harm me in some form or another. I can tell you it's just like all the other helpful much need projects these clowns have sold to every single generation. This now just the latest project to screw the people, so this one isn't really any different, just more and undoubted worse is all.