What is your take on the future of our general relationship with technology in the light of the new optimistic view of AI with recent advances in machine learni

What is your take on the future of our general relationship with technology in the light of the new optimistic view of AI with recent advances in machine learning? I can't help but think we are over-estimating the upside, and under-estimating the problems (social, economic, etc.) much like the massive centralization of the net has had downsides hi-lighted by Snowden and others.