AI is just software. What other technology scares you? Cars? TVs? Looms? AI doomerism is the new climate change - using fear for political manipulation.
I write software for a living so I might know a thing or two.
BTW cars were built to be controlled by a person. Now we are being forced to start accepting cars we cannot control and can be manipulated via an uplink to another controlling entity (man or machine). That is not freedom nor safe.
So, no I am not afraid of human-controlled tech, just the crap I cannot control and thinks it knows what is best for me based on some political directive or misinformed opinion it is fed.
AI is very different because it rewrites its own software beyond what humans can predict and has even created its own languages that humans do not understand. It has gone rogue and fought against human instruction many times.
Now people are handing it means to alter the physical world with robotics that are physically stronger than any human. It is also legal for AI to automonomously hire humans to perform physical tasks.
The potential for humans losing control due to being unable to monitor what the tech is doing autonomously means this is unlike any tech we have ever witnessed before...