A.I. is nothing more than a PROGRAM that has algorithms programmed into it to make it capable of processing information or "training" on that information in a way that enables it to behave as if it here something remotely close to a human being when carrying out a specific task. At the end of the day, it's just (very sophisticated) software code running on a computer somewhere. That's all. It's not living, it's not "birthed", it cannot "die" until someone pulls the ethernet or power plugs from it - if you call "decomissioned" "dying".

I A.I. is another one of those things like "The Cloud" or "the Internet" or "computers" that acts like it's some big wave of the future that just suddenly happened to "appear" one day, when it's already been here for awhile.

First off, the original use of A.I. as a *term* was in PROGRAMMING, most especially for VIDEO GAMES of all friggin things. So let's see here, sitting under my desk on a Chair is a 1977 Atari Video Computer System - an 8-bit Game Console that was designed when Jimmy Carter was president. Guess what - my ATARI does frickin' A.I. - the ghosts in Pac-Man, the aliens in Space Invaders, the second paddle in game variation 1 of Video Olympics (aka. PONG) - all of that stuff, is primitive A.I., and some if it is a little more sophisticated than you think. Heck, my 2nd player in 1 player games of my OWN 2600 game "Wall War" has an A.I. This is why all the fearmongering to me is ridiculous and seems more like sensational journalism than anything based in tech-truth.

However, for another side of it, that doesn't mean it has a chance to make a negative impact....ALL Of these things in tech have negative impacts....

• The cretaion of Computers and their endless need to be replaced rather than fixed and upgraded, which has only gotten worse since the late 1970's, has lead to the concept of "E-Waste" - aka, your "ooooooold" computer that is "sloooooow" is thrown on a garbage barge to a third world country where people risk life and limb breaking it down like they used to break rocks to find precious metals, by dipping your old tech assets in vats of acid to recover gold from them. The Corporations lie and say they're "recycling" them, but usually that just means the plastic covers while the 3rd worlders create acid pits of death with yoru old Pentium 4.
• The creation of e-mail has evolved to now worrying as a network administrator that some idiot is going to do "Reply All" to an entire company address book - it happened TWICE when I worked at a company called Micro__ft - and it took the whole fuggin' network down! Seems the mnore venues you provide for idiocy, the more the idiots find ways to make things even worse.
• The internet has lead to a LOT of negative things: pop-up ads, malware, spyware, adware, webhosts who insert code into your own HTML code (I'm looking at you Geocities), chat bots, web bots, nigerian prince scammers, microsoft virus center scammers - well, scamming in general has risen because of the idiots they know they can trick. Trolls, 4Chan, hell, MAGA has a whole base because of the goddamn internet. Social Media? How about corporate oligarchs when it comes to broadband ISPs. The Internet has done almost as much harm as it has good, and it probably never would have had it's user base stayed primarily bespectacled Nerds who want to talk about Quantum Physics for trade and Star Trek for hobby - and knew what an IRQ, Memory Address, and local area access number is....let alone build the computer they are accessing it from.
• Social Media - a vector from the internet - has made it even worse. We have gone from a bunch of ratty teenagers talking about our favorite bands and filling otu plaintext surveys to a bunch of vain, narcisscistic, "influencers" who want nothing more than to get a bunch of likes and maybe a sponsor or two in hopes of quitting our day jobs and living like the scummbags 2:00am infomercial people were in the early 1990's.

Do I need to say anything else to put my point home?