It is absolutely reasonable to fear how ML may be misused by a human, and those concerns fall mostly in the realm of political theory and economics. My claim i

It is absolutely reasonable to fear how ML may be misused by a human, and those concerns fall mostly in the realm of political theory and economics. My claim is that I have seen no evidence that it is reasonable to fear a fictional self-aware autonomous AI (what I call HGI). The evidence people point to seems to have a very tenuous relationship with the reality of AI research. Once we have even an inkling of an idea of how one might approach creating an artificial HGI, we can discuss how we can prevent it from being evil and taking over the world. Until there's actually a proposal for how one might construct one, though, any such discussion is worse than useless. How can you talk about the risk of something when you literally have no idea what it is you are describing or how it's built, embodied with magical properties imagined by science fiction authors? To me, this makes about as much sense as talking about stopping aliens which could very well exist and could very well wipe out our civilization, i.e. great subject for wrapping up a party or going to the movies, but not exactly material for peer reviewed journals.