All those working on AI are effectively working very hard to put themselves out of business, it's a funny version of poetic justice.
This is the webpage's introduction of one of those people:
"Since age 15 or so, Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber's goal has been to build a self-improving Artificial Intelligence (AI) smarter than himself, then retire" ( http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/ )