It doesn't help that the people currently in charge are fucking stupid, trigger happy, and emotionally insecure.

Right it’s not that it’s a killer sentient machine, it’s that it’s a faulty statistical model that outputs incorrect stuff all the time and credulous morons believe it uncritically (or even automate a response based on that inherently inaccurate output).

The only solution is to give the firing codes to the AI. That way we don’t acccidentally use them.

Yeah the more these AI companies are making AI seem the scary boogeyman, the more probable it is some disaster is going to happen because people put too much stock into it. Like the school bombing.