This is all you need to know. People who are actually familiar with AI aren't 'afraid' at all. Some big tech names are 'afraid' because they don't know AI, and just go off terminator and shit like everyone else. Ultimately it all depends on what type of AI you are talking about.Andrew Ng builds artificial intelligence systems for a living. He taught AI at Stanford, built AI at Google, and then moved to the Chinese search engine giant, Baidu, to continue his work at the forefront of applying artificial intelligence to real-world problems. So when he hears people like Elon Musk or Stephen Hawking—people who are not intimately familiar with today’s technologies—talking about the wild potential for artificial intelligence to, say, wipe out the human race, you can practically hear him face palming.