I’m sure there are lots of great and useful discoveries ahead. I don’t hate or fear AI itself - I find it fascinating.
But it requires a very reductionist/mechanistic concept of human consciousness to believe that an AI will ever be anything like human intelligence. I can’t squeeze myself - or dumb myself down - into that kind of concept; it frightens me that some people can and do. It also frightens me to think of some of the proposed uses to which they may put the technology.
Skynet just might be coming. There are those stupid enough to put something like that into service.