I am pretty similar to most it seems, AI has the potential to do amazing things for the world, but I am as scared as anything about the potential problems. Maybe its too many Hollywood movies where AI turns into a war between robots and humans, but that seems possible.

My other worry is that AI combined with robotics has the potential to lead to mass unemployment. Unskilled through to semi-skilled labour would be cheaper and more efficient with an AI robot than a human, and this is potentially many hundreds of thousands of people unemployed. Society at the moment isn't set up for this, Universal Basic Income would be a must - at a decent level - before we could cope with this change.

I work in supermarkets - imagine if a robot could be built to restack shelves. It would work 24/7 and do the job faster and (probably) more accurately, than humans. That one task would put many thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of workers out of a job. Spread this across many industries and uses and the result is pretty scarry.