The fear of AI is completely misleading

Many people are raising a fear for AI and that a super intelligence might not be aligned with the interests of humans. There are many reasons to be skeptical against such a view. Some have been covered in this blog before. Here is another one.

Say that is turns out artificial super intelligence is the outcome of the processes we see now. Say that such ASI outperform humans in most tasks. Why is it then a bad thing that they supersede us? If they are the next step in evolution, is it not a good thing that it materializes?

Very many of the arguments against ASI are really grounded in fear. But fear is not a good basis for making decisions.