All of the talk about "AI Safety" and "Effective Altruism" cannot be dismissed as BS. As technology has become more and more integrated into the very fabric of society, some dangers are very real unless we explicitly use Human standards of Morals/Ethics to regulate them. Of course this should be no excuse to go off into la-la land.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_safety

Scholars discuss current risks from critical systems failures, bias, and AI enabled surveillance; emerging risks from technological unemployment, digital manipulation, and weaponization; and speculative risks from losing control of future artificial general intelligence (AGI) agents.

Also watch Munk debate: AI research and development poses an existential threat featuring Yoshua Bengio, Max Tegmark, Melanie Mitchell and Yann LeCun - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=144uOfr4SYA