one thing about God. he doesn't care about the robots because he's not the one that's going to be screwed by their onset.
as far as hollywood goes, nearly every bit of technology we have today was once a dream.
and lastly, this AI will be exactly that:
intelligent . sure, it won't go around killing people offhand at first. however, this intelligence will probably have the capacity to learn. then it will do one of three things. continue it's "benevolent" coexistense with mankind. discover that others are a threat to it's creators and decide to take them out. decide that mankind is more trouble than we're worth and annihilate us all.
a simple machine can be safely programmed to do only as it is told. but when you add the word "intelligence" to it, it becomes a whole new kettle of fish. intelligence is a very weighty term and full of all kinds of implications and they all point in the same direction: awareness. you cannot expect to build a truly intelligent machine and have it remain clueless to the world, it's habits, it's struggles, it's
complexity and not adapt to it in some way. and that's just if this technology is left to it's own devices.
now you have to consider it's interactions with the world playing a part in it's "behavior". it could very well be great. it has the potential, i can't argue with that. but there ARE people that won't like it. there are people that will want it gone. and anything with any amount of intelligence is going to want to...well, survive for lack of a better word. just because it is made of synthetic materials doesn't mean that it will be passive to outside aggression. and there will be outside aggression, my friend.
in any case, these are just my concerns. it's not that i'm uncomfortable with the technology. i'm uncomfortable with the world's reception and ability to adapt to the technology. 'cause somebody's gonna do some crazy sh-...junk, and the next thing you know we're going to have a whole bunch of pissed off robots or whatnot on our hands. and that's not cool.