I have to agree on a few points as well: We're much closer than we were a year ago but not as close as many think we are w.r.t self-driving cars, killer robots

I have to agree on a few points as well: We're much closer than we were a year ago but not as close as many think we are w.r.t self-driving cars, killer robots or even reliable speech recognition. Safe-guards are probably a good idea before unleashing an AGI onto the Internet but those working on it are not going to be surprised one morning that their AI project suddenly became sentient or dangerous. It will be a deliberate, massive project with lots of funding and lots of smart people working on it.