There are an incomprehensible number of huge obstacles between us and a future where a strong AI could decide to cause real damage, as opposed to the present wh

There are an incomprehensible number of huge obstacles between us and a future where a strong AI could decide to cause real damage, as opposed to the present where a handful of people could cause a devastating nuclear war. These are issues that AI researchers and philosophers and science fiction authors certainly should be thinking about. They are completely irrelevant to the general public.