AI is a marketing term that refers to data/compute intensive systems only a few companies can produce. It's not intelligent, it's not a sci-fi threat: these are sides of the same hype coin.
Overstating AI capabilities--for good or evil--is the best marketing these corps have.
The world needs more intelligence.
The amplification of human intelligence by machine intelligence will enable a new Renaissance, a new period of Enlightenment.
Prophecies of AI-fueled doom are nothing more than a new form of obscurantism.