I thought of them too, but they've got their filthy money-laundering hands in too many pockets and they're controlling too many people - it would be a losing battle. The triads would be a more realistic target.
Besides, they literally take our people hostage, wear ablative carbon-composite / high-tech-metal-alloy armor, and lug around gallons of flamethrower fuel. They also tend to hunt in packs¹ and establish war camps on our bridges every morning.
We'll need a lot more than one good politician and a few bribes to the media to win that war.²
Most deaths involve multiple of them, IIRC.
But please, if you can, I strongly encourage anyone to prove me wrong. The implication here is that lots of science and engineering and money is needed to fix the dangers and reduce the risks. The kind of science and engineering and money that Google already started doing a while ago.
Well, there is a movement afoot to tame their wild nature. Some day being trampled or squished into pulp by these creatures will be but a distant memory, as their descendants follow the path of domestication well traveled by other animals, the past perils replayed only in the highly scripted spectacle of corrida de coches.
I posted in Practical Ethics, arguing that if we mentally anthropomorphised certain risks, then we'd be more likely to give them the attention they deserved. Slaying the Cardiovascular Vampire, defeating the Parasitic Diseases Death Cult, and banishing the Demon of Infection... these stories give a mental picture of the actual good we're doing when combating these issues, and the bad we're doing by ignoring them. Imagine a politician proclaiming:
An amusing thing to contemplate - except, of course, if there were a real Cardiovascular Vampire, politicians and pundits would be falling over themselves with those kinds of announcements.
The field of AI is already over-saturated with anthropomorphisation, so we definitely shouldn't be imagining Clippy as some human-like entity that we can heroically combat, with all the rules of narrative applying. Still it can't hurt to dream up a hideous Bias Demon in its mishaped (though superficially plausible) lair, cackling in glee as someone foolishly attempts to implement an AI design without the proper safety precautions, smiling serenely as prominent futurist dismiss the risk... and dissolving, hit by the holy water of increased rationality and proper AI research. Those images might help us make the right emotional connection to what we're achieving here.