Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.

Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.