How Afraid of AI Should We Be?

I'm sure you've heard of or seen the movie "The Matrix''. The film follows our protagonist, Neo, as he tries to save humanity from the matrix: a fabricated world created by artificial intelligence to trap humans in. Artificial Intelligence (or "AI" for short) is becoming increasingly more prevalent in our lives and will play an instrumental part in humanity's future. While many view it as something that can be beneficial, it can also be devastatingly destructive. However, the reason we should fear AI has nothing to do with a machine's consciousness or the risk of its rebellion, but something much simpler.