As I've been saying, the "AI threat" is not that it'll autonomously decide to hate humans but that it will, under the control and guidance of actual humans, be used for anti-human purposes.
- Youtube's deep learning recommendation engine. Thanks to Guillaume Chaslot for publicly stating what I suspected was going on at Google https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/technology/youtube-conspi...
- Google, Facebook, etc use of machine learning for advertising optimization.
- Presumable widespread use of facial recognition cameras in China (an area I don't know a lot about.)
How are we supposed to expect the leaders in AI to perform ethically in the future, or today, when their first foray in to machine learning commercialization has been sloppy and ethics-free?
Remove the billions and billions of dollars in profit to be reaped from making humans obsolete.
Being attacked by a pack of wild animals. Not that I care about the politics, but it immediately jumped into my mind.
But some technologies are more apt to be used in bad ways than others, and more nightmarish in the uses they enable.
(E.g. nuclear technology, in the form of bombs, can enable total annihilation of the planet. Glass-making technology, not so much -- what, we'll fill the planet with jars?)