I tend to believe so. People have the most fear toward AI are ones who don't work on AI directly. I think it's quite possible that we will develop some really advanced AI in the future but it will take a lot longer than what these people expect. Andrew Ng thinks it will take hundreds of years, not years or decades for us to get there. In other words, I think there are better problems (clean energy, hunger, etc) to solve at this point.
