Is AI a GAME CHANGER or a Threat to Humanity?

The story of Artificial Intelligence, as told by Hollywood, is one of dystopian futures and robot overlords. Cinematic narratives of world-dominating superintelligence capture our imagination, painting a picture of an inevitable conflict between creator and creation. While these stories make for great fiction, they rely on a fundamentally human assumption: that a powerful new intelligence would be just like us, only smarter.
This article pulls back the curtain on the dialogues happening deep within the field of AI, where the real conversations among leading researchers, philosophers, and engineers are focused on far more surprising and nuanced challenges. The true nature of AI may be not its similarity to us, but its fundamental alienness.