I am not afraid of AI, I am afraid of the intentions of those developing the AI. Population growth and the move away from agrarian societies have made countless persons left unemployed and penniless, and it's not like for-profit companies are required to have any interest in helping them in the current economic model.

And it is still too early in the experiment to see whether most people will really enjoy the post-industrial age, even today the economic divide is vast and the ramifications have yet to fully present themselves. We are, after all, only a few hundred years into the real swing of the fossil fuel era, whereas modern humans and our predecessors got by without it for countless generations.