It’s not robots we should fear, it’s their creators

GUEST: One day, artificially intelligent robots will replace human beings as the Earth’s dominant form of life, or so says Stephen Hawking (and Elon Musk). However, for all the impressive progress AIs and robots have made in recent years, the most urgent and real danger they pose to society lies elsewhere.
More specifically, the threat lies not with the possibility of AIs transcending the specific purposes they now serve (such as managing hedge funds or recruiting new employees)