“Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history,” wrote theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, in an Independent column in May. “It might also be the last.”
"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do." -- Ted Nelson
You more likely need to worry about the AI-developers you don't know about than the ones you do know about. The ones who are building battlefield robots are the ones I have in mind, whoever they might be.