Human Compatible A.I.: A Myth - The Ape Machine

If you have any kind of finger on the pulse of today's developments in Artificial Intelligence you know about the big piece of no-man's land that lies in between the Utopian dreams, and the apocalyptic nightmares. I myself live in that no-man's land, because most of what I produce literally explores the apocalypse, just because it is so much more fun to write about, but in my research and development I still continue to explore A.I. without any fear that things will get out of hand any time soon. Now, you could say that stems from a lack of belief in my abilities to achieve my goal, which is to make a more generalistic artificial intelligence, but personally I don't believe that to be true. There is however something that I have seen more and more talks about lately, and that is the concept of human compatible A.I., by which we are referring to artificially intelligent systems that can peacefully co-exist next to humans, and never form an actual threat to humanity. This, I believe, is very difficult to imagine, even if it was purely to conceptualize a compatibility between something that is super-intelligent, and a species that has pretty much reached maximum mental capacity for at least a handful of evolutionary ticks to come. By now there are endless examples of the "rogue A.I." scenario, from the stamp-collector to the spam-filter, and they all come down to basically the same thing.