Kind of like worrying about airline safety before we had planes.

Don't believe the hype, we're nowhere close to human level learning.

We also probably won't know where/what the threats really are until we get there. Just read the comments here, everyone is basing their ideas off sci-fi movies.

Don't let the hype-train get to you, I know it's fun to think about this type of stuff but we still have a long way to go and there's still a lot of serious work to be done before we start worrying about "safety."

AI today is the equivalent of putting lipstick on a pig. We call it "AI" but it's not anymore intelligent than a computer doing math.

Even machine learning is fundamentally based on statistical probability.

The way our neurons work has very little functional resemblance with the neural nets used today but most people will happily forget that because our simpler neural nets are easier to learn, run faster and can be practically applied today.

Very few people are seriously committed to solving intelligence. Most just want to secure funding, write a book or clickbait article or just get their app working, ask these people about AI safety and they'll drink the kool-aid with you too.

Ask someone seriously working on this problem which we've been trying to solve since the 1950s and you'll get some variation of "whatever"

It could well turn out to be an important concern, but what we're waiting for is something resembling a general AI, that we can observe and evaluate to understand whether it even has anything analogous to self-preservation, will-to-power, grand game theoretical striving with humanity, or anything else people worry about in the very abstract.