Opinion

Humans are an incredibly adaptable species. With the advent of livestock and domestic pets, for example, we invented new symbiotic relations that went on to define our civilization. Artificial intelligence as it exists today is already radically changing our economy, with computers usurping traditionally human professions and humans mobilizing to maintain them. If computers eventually become sentient, we will probably be quick to become more dependent on smart technology as a tool--and also to share a transactional relation with AI, akin to what we have with horses and dogs. Hollywood would have you believe that AI is an existential threat to civilization.