I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.
IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.