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While Ebola outbreaks in New York haven't happened, Ebola is a real disease where we know exactly what it would do if there were an outbreak in New York. In all these cases we have a pretty good handle of what the diseases would do, and we've seen extreme examples of diseases in history, such as the Black Death wiping out much of Europe. That does seem like a distinct issue where no one has seen any form of serious danger from AI in the historical or present-day world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
If anything that's underlies it even more- in the small sample we do have in this case things haven't done much damage except for the narrow bit of damage they were programmed to do. So the essential point that we haven't seen any serious danger from AI seems valid. (Although there's been some work on making automated exploit searchers which conceivably attached to something like Stuxnet with a more malevolent goal set could be quite nasty.)