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What you've expressed is the outlier, extremist view. Most AI researchers are of the opinion, if they have expressed a thought at all, that there is a long series of things that must happen in conjunction for a skynet like failure to occur. It is hardly obvious at all that AI should be a highly regulated research field, like say nuclear weapons research.
I highly suggest expanding your reading beyond the Yudjowsky, Bostrom et all clique.
Most AI researchers have not done any research into the topic of AI risk, so their opinions are irrelevant. That's like pointing to the opinions of sailors on global warming. Because global warming is about oceans and sailors should be experts on that kind of thing.
I think AI researchers are slowly warming up to AI risk. A few years ago it was a niche thing that no one had ever heard of. Now it's gotten some media attention and there is a popular book about it. Slate Star Codex has compiled a list of notable AI researchers that take AI risk seriously.
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