quoted excerpt from Encounters with the Archgenius

being partial quote from "Encounters with the Archgenius" from page 45 of Time magazine dated March 7th 2016:

-----Among the thundering vanguard, though, is a growing group of worried individuals, some of them doomstruck Cassandras, some machine hating Luddites and a few who fit into neither group. They take in the rapid rise of superintelligent machines--- which are already taking over jobs as factory workers, stock traders, data processors, even news reporters--- and conclude they will eventually render us (ALL) obsolete. "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race," warns Stephen Hawking, the reknowned astrophysicist.
 --- (Gelenter author)-
In his latest book, The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the spectrum of Consciousness, Gelernter argues that the entire field of AI (artificial Intelligence) is off tract, and dangerously so. A key question in the pursuit of intelligence has never been answered---indeed it has never really been asked: Does it matter that your brain is a part of your body?

Or to put it another way: What is the human mind without the human being?

This mind-body question has an odd place in the history of artificial intelligence. Alan Turing, one of the pioneers of the field, fond it so daunting that he pushed it off to one side. His seminal 1950 paper, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," drew a fairly sharp line between the physical  and intellectual capacities of a man," as he put it.

A similar attitude was struck a few years later by computer scientists at IBM. Reporting their breakthrough succes in creating a computer capable of excelling at high school geometry, project leader Herbert Gelernter--- David's father---declined to say "whether our machine is indeed behaving intelligently."

Over the half-century that followed, a funny thing happened on the dizzying road from electronic geometry whizbangs to the apocalyptic threat of Hawking's darkest thoughts. AI theorists stopped treating the human body as an overwhelming problem to be set aside and started treating it as an irrelevant matter to be ignored.

end quote from page 46 mid page of the March 7th 2016 Time Magazine.

Now you can see the problem more clearly. IF AI people who are inventing AI don't consider it important that intelligence is connected to a human body then there is no moral dilemma in creating something that will accidentally annihilate all human bodies at one point or another.

So, here is the real problem. People developing AI are not Ethicists they are technologists. And being a technologist does not mean you are a moral or an immoral person. It Only assumes you are an intelligent and well educated person. So, Mankind's survival is left out of the design scenario often.

And this has been true ever since Turing invented the idea of doing anything like this in the first place.

And just because something can do something doesn't mean it will do something. It might mean it might decide (in any instant) to do something else.

And this something else may not be understood by anyone until it is entirely too late.

With people when they "Go off and waste 1 or 10 or 100 people, it is usually pretty obvious. However, Artificial intelligence might successfully hide what it is doing while thousands or millions died (by accident?).

So, this is where we are potentially right now with artificial intelligence worldwide.

So, if you are a newspaper reporter or someone who has lost someone under suspicious circumstances the guilty party might not be a human being. It could just be AI 10,000 miles away doing this remotely.

So, suspicious deaths can now be AI caused worldwide by militaries, spies, companies or whoever has enough money to buy AI to make decisions for them so they are not held liable should it ever be found out what actually happened.

So, people might nudge AI in a direction and then absolve themselves of all responsibility as to the consequences. Or they might allow the AI to do whatever it wants and just allow it to thin out mankind in whatever way it wants to.

This could be done through a robot, over the Internet or in various other likely untraceable ways.

We definitely live in a "Brave New World" where things are going to happen that "No One literally will be responsible for!"