I always understood the talk of "desires" and "taking over" to be a strategy to explain the real problems of AI. I don't think these people actually think that

I always understood the talk of "desires" and "taking over" to be a strategy to explain the real problems of AI. I don't think these people actually think that AI will lead to a future like I, Robot. Cuz there ARE major problems with automated computer systems already, problems that only get worse with automated computing. Kevin Slavin has a good talk on the subject, and he brings up the occurrence of "flash crashes" in the stock market now that we rely on high frequency / algorithmic trading. Here's the talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_our_world?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_...