Yeah, there are a lot of professors who don’t know what the hell they’re talking about outside of whatever narrow field they study. Just to be safe, you should always assume that a professor’s opinion is worth what you paid for it.

> scientists like Stephen Hawking and Alan Turing have all voiced series concerns about loss of control of artificial intelligence.

…both of whom are long dead, and have no possible way of weighing in on whatever the Current Thing happens to be. So aside from appeal to authority, this is irrelevant commentary on pure science fiction.