This probably will not be a popular opinion, but here it is anyway. I'm sure all the famous names mentioned in this article as prophets of the AI impending doom

This probably will not be a popular opinion, but here it is anyway. I'm sure all the famous names mentioned in this article as prophets of the AI impending doom are exceptionally gifted entrepreneurs, technologists and business men (and I should add I hold some in the highest respect in terms of their vision and work), but that does not convince me they have any qualifications to predict where artificial intelligence will take us. To speak about if and when AI will become self-aware is nothing more than a guess. To speak about whether capitalism will end as a result is a guess upon a guess. As far as I'm concerned there's one sure way to tell if someone has the ability to predict the future at these levels: if they are human - they can't.