Yes you are right that are a kind of threat response but not personal threat as much as general threat. There is a great danger that because of the name AI and

Yes you are right that are a kind of threat response but not personal threat as much as general threat. There is a great danger that because of the name AI and the general association that we have with computers as giving correct result, People will (and are already) attribute meaning and "correctness" where there is none. This is nothing like UFOs or EmDrives because those come from fallible humans and this would come from the "infallible AI". What is wrong with describing it for what it is, a stochastic predictive model? Human brains are known to create "meaning" where there is none and with a perfectly created sentence they will assign meaning (reasoning in this case) where there is none. One week ago there was a case of a man (in Belgium) who "sacrificed" himself because the AI chatBot convinced him that there was no solution to Enviornment problem. He assigned meaning ("Even the AI could not find a way out") where the chatbot was just parroting what it was reading in the media. Note that in this case both the general media and the AI give the same "result"=no hope, but as long as it was in the general media, he was still hopeful that humans just couldn't find it whereas the AI convinced him. You may diregard this as an extreme example but we have the general tendency to attribute correctnes to everything "computable". If I can trust the calculator that was created to do math why should I not trust the AI that is created to do Reasoning? People need to be aware that there is no reasoning behind it.