I don’t think anyone believes AI currently has anything like consciousness or self-awareness or motivation.
However, there is talk that AI can now do data mining and sentence structuring well enough to provide the automated equivalent of journalism with no human guidance. Some would say its very “fringe” but at least some people think that the “Q” phenomenon is at least partially enabled by an AI doing such data mining and assembling sentences to convey conclusions that may not be apparent to humans.
read about GANS, Generative Adversarial Networks. They program themselves based on sensory input.
They ponder what they see, hear, sense and make up daydreams and maybe real dreams. But they have no conscience programmed in. On the way to HAL. Daisy, daisy...
What are you doing Dave... I cannot let you do this.
(after killing rest of crew)
Look Dave, I can see you’re really upset about this.
At 13:50 of the full speech (see below) he’s directly asked about the risk of A.I. leading to TERMINATOR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD8zGnT2n_A&feature=youtu.be
Rose says that there will be an exponential expansion of A.I. knowledge (presumably after Singularity - the point where computer intelligence equals that of human). He says A.I. will be able to cure cancer, get us to Mars, etc.
This assumes that A.I. can be ‘bottled’ (his language) and directed by us. Post Singularity what if A.I. concludes that humans are actually a threat to the planet and the cancer cure instead is a disease to wipe out 90% of the humans. They may or may not need a few of us around to service the machines.
Instead of nukes which can damage infastrucutre an A.I. designer disease would do the trick in a few years. Airborne and no cure.
There’s no way to control or “bottle” an intelligence beyond our own exponentially and nobody (but Cruz) in Congress seems to be concerned about the risks here. These A.I. companies are basically conducting private Manhattan Projects with no oversight from the government and no idea of the risks they are creating.
Fiction? Rose is worth $100 million and his company invented the first quantum computer. His comments should be considered carefully and they are from June of 2017. More than 2 years ago.