For sure mistakes and accidents will happen. I sure hope we won't program them on purpose to go on school shooting sprees though, or massacre unarmed villagers,

For sure mistakes and accidents will happen. I sure hope we won't program them on purpose to go on school shooting sprees though, or massacre unarmed villagers, or pee on prisoners and torture them for fun... all I'm saying is we don't need to hypothesize about possible AI evils when humans are already there. Why is it given that an AI or algorithm has to be less ethical than humans? I don't think it has to be, and hell, ChatGpt (with or without guidance/censorship) already shows a greater capacity for moral reasoning than some (many?) humans. We didn't evolve for some sort of absolute moral superiority, we're just a smart violent ape with in and out groups, quite prone to otherization and dehumanization on a whim. And we elect, follow, and worship sociopaths that strongly exhibit those traits... over and over. Every parent hopes their children will be better people. With AI we might actually be able to make that happen, unbounded by human genetics, though of course other challenges will arise. Shrug. Maybe Skynet is around the corner. But maybe not. There's uncertainty and thus hope there, at least, whereas I guarantee you the human species, unchanged, will keep producing genocidal dictators every decade or three.