Are You Scared Yet?

Of artificial intelligence. ..that's what!
It has been set loose upon us...seemingly just like that...to help us they say...to do the things we can't or won't.

Well, what the hell...we unleashed the atom
unto humanity for similar reasons only the pretext was to keep us safe and end a war by immediately incinerating almost half a million people...effective to say the least!

Well now...I must think...can AI...really be a blessing in disguise? The true culmination of human prowess...the ultimate panacea?...perhaps. ..about the worst thing happening is that workers around the world are loosing their jobs at breakneck speed...to machines!
Remember those who many years ago warned of "technological displacement"?
Well, we must remember that we're barreling  towards an unpredictable and potentially life destroying future...A sentiment expressed by none other than Bill Gates, Stephen Hawkins,  and Elon Musk among others. They might know a thing or two about AI.

Now, Can we assume that highly develop Artificial intelligence is necessarily bad?
Not really. ..but, intelligence in and of itself is also not necessarily wisdom.
Super intelligence may, in its quest to perfect and preserve itself not consider
humanity to be vital or essential...in fact
It may observe it to be irrelevant and therefore expendable.

Should we ponder ways to slow AI down? Is that even possible at this point?
Is the cat out of the bag?

The real question is. ..was this part of humanity's evolutionary fate all along...that no matter what...we would always reach this point...total omniscience joining eternity.