Fear is the main impediment to the ultimate success of AI

It could be said that we humans have a strange, even somewhat strained, relationship with our technology. Even deep thought poster children like Plato fretted that a newfangled medium called "writing" would cause the end of intelligent debate. Today, of course, being literate is simply table stakes, with an estimated 86 percent of the world's population able to read and write. No doubt we could find a troll or two to advise (in writing) that literacy is the cause of society's ills, but overall, I'd say the introduction of that particular technology seems to have worked out alright in the end. This overarching question of whether technology will save or destroy us now includes many innovations that we now take for granted.