Killer robots -- they're coming to get us! At least that's what the majority of otherwise credible news sources would have us believe when tackling the very serious concerns around AI safety, as well as the increasingly clichéd use of photos of Terminator robots in such articles. It's a pet peeve expressed by renowned AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky in a recent appearance on Sam Harris' podcast, and a reference that betrays a deep misunderstanding of the ways in which our civilization's future survival likely depends on ensuring the safe development of future artificial intelligence. For one thing, you'd think we'd be over "robots". As was graphically illustrated by the apparent Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election, nefarious artificial intelligence is not some far-off thing -- it's already here and running wild throughout the World Wide Web in the form of bots. And yet somehow we still fail to recognize it for what it is, because our image of malicious artificial intelligence still looks like a gleaming metal endoskeleton with glowing red eyes and an evil grin.