Prepare for arrival: Tech pioneer warns of alien invasion

  No, this alien will not come from a distant planet – it will be born right here on Earth, hatched in a research lab at a major university or large corporation. I am referring to the first artificial general intelligence (AGI) that reaches (or exceeds) human-level cognition.

Clickbait. Stopped reading after this paragraph.

Author is known "for founding the early virtual reality company Immersion Corp (Nasdaq IMMR) in 1993"

I'll bet he had grand predictions for the miracles VR would bring about, too.

Should this kinda thing make us feel safer about AI boogermen? That the people raising concerns about "AI" have a track record of living off of hype instead of reality is kinda comforting.

If we're going by strict definitions then we already have 'artificial general intelligence (AGI) that reaches (or exceeds) human-level cognition', most people are complete morons and computers can already out-think them.