glider1001 wrote:
Be brave! Nothing is literally true, but everything in our existence is an experience. Fear is an experience. Artificial intelligence is an experience. Share the experience, but question your intellect and open your hearts.
Funny how you used so many words to explain your stance on fear, artificial and intelligence only to negate it with the statement: Nothing is literally true. That includes everything that you just said.
So now I am going to end my sentence and go my merry way with the thought that you didn't even make a point. 
i.e.
Eh there good people
Question the literal meaning of anything.....
Artificial: What do we mean by artificial? It is just an arbitrary reference point from our point of view.
Intelligence: What is intelligence? It is an arbitrary reference point from our point of view
Fear: What is fear? We feel threatened by what we do not understand
As you can see, the question:
"Why do we fear artificial intelligence?"
Is not actually a question. It is a collection of assumptions and can easily be viewed as a statement as well. This is not to criticize the person that asked it! It is great to ask questions!
Us humans have still got a lot of work to do to understand ourselves, let alone AI. We know nothing for certain, because certainty itself is uncertain, and so what are we trying to know? We should try to understand our intellect and how it works, and then all questions will resolve themselves (resolution is not an answer but an experience). Fear will resolve itself too. After all, why do we want to live in fear?
Our intellect is not what we "think" it is! Do you see the contradiction in that sentence? If the sentence still makes sense, then you are experiencing intellectual reasoning. Our intellect forms representations of concepts. Once it has a representation, it can negate that representation, however the negation is still a representation. Our logic is based on arbitrary rules that manipulate models in our intellect.
Our intellect is a sense in our brain, that manipulates and organises representations. What we think is intelligence, is actually just a sensation of thought, as our brain manipulates representations that it has collected. Our brains manipulate only what we know, constantly reshuffling and reinterpreting the familiarity of our internal models of what we think reality is....But thinking what reality is, does not mean that we know what reality is.
Always our intellect leads to a contradiction. Experiment with this! Think through any line of thought, and you will contradict yourself. Why is that? Our intellect senses our concepts and reorganises them, but it cannot see the most important detail! The intellect cannot truly sense itself, without representing what it thinks the intellect is! Thus all reasoning fundamentally ends up in a contradiction because we are trying to explain concrete fact, but it only ever exists as a representation in our intellect.
We are scared of anything, because we do not understand anything. We do not understand ourselves. It is very possible that there is actually no concept of "artificial". There could be no concept of "intelligence". There is just an experience of fear that we sense, and the experience is all that makes it real to us. We represent that experience in our intellect and then try to reorganise our thoughts to minimise the fear. Can you see from what I have said, that the intellect is useless to us when it comes to questions about "fear" as this forum topic is actually reduced down to?
What is the heart in us humans? We cannot know what the heart is intellectually, because of the way our intellect works. We can feel it. We can experience the heart. If we can accept that we do not know anything for certain, we can open up our heart and share the experience of living in a world of uncertainty. There is no man or woman alive that is an exception to this. We are all equal, and our fears are not isolated only to us. No one can speak with absolute authority. We all have our part to play.
Be brave! Nothing is literally true, but everything in our existence is an experience. Fear is an experience. Artificial intelligence is an experience. Share the experience, but question your intellect and open your hearts. Humans, AI, fear itself is probably just the way it is. Accept it and experience all of it and help where you can.
Enjoy the experience. Contemplate on this next time you play a game of chess, but don't blame me if you blunder!
Cheers