Artificial Intelligence and Us

It seems that artificial intelligence (AI) is a big theme in this year's summer movies.  I have seen Ex Machina (great movie) and Age of Ultron and will surely see Genisys when it comes out.  Judgement Day is probably still my favorite movie.  The most common theme in AI movies is that artificial intelligence will be created and it will be hostile towards its creator.  

There are people and huge tech companies working towards the creation of AI right now and most of them, if not all of them, are working toward a future where they believe that it will enhance mankind, not enslave or replace it.  There is a broad spectrum of possible attitudes for AI(s) to have toward us and near limitless applications and shapes our relationship could take.  I look to the future answering this question with anticipation.  

Our relationship with AI encompasses a spectrum where on one end machines continue to be in servitude to mankind and on the other end mankind is either annihilated or in servitude to machines.  I don't really see the necessity for mankind's enslaving in the case of a machine world, that is unless we get some details on this "form of fusion" that the future might hold, but that is beside the point.

What has not been explored as much is the spectrum in the middle ground where we form a symbiotic relationship with machines.  Maybe this hasn't been explored as much because it is more difficult to envision but it could make for a very interesting and mutually beneficial relationship between man and machine.  Things are seldom as bad or as good as they are expected to be so I suspect that we will land somewhere in that middle ground which is filled with endless unexplored and unpredictable possibilities.  

I have a lot of questions, just a few of which are...  What if machines continue to be integrated into our lives to the point where we can no longer differentiate between man and machine?  What kind of laws will need to be in place?  Do the laws of men govern machines?  How do we even make that distinction in the future?  How long before PETMAI is formed (people for the ethical treatment of machines and artificial intelligence)?

I know these questions sound strange but the future is always strange until it's not.  Someday our descendents will look back at these simple times and marvel how we ever got anything done with such rudimentary tools and such a limited work force.  As long as there are generations, there will be a disconnect between them along the grounds of technology.  If you told a person 100 years ago that today 3 billion people would be continuously connected through a network of computers that you could access even while flying across the ocean at 30,000+ feet inside a metal whale that is traveling at 500+ miles per hour, you would probably be committed or accused of witchcraft.  

But just in case the future doesn't pan out in that middle ground, I made a video to cover my bases, click on the link below to watch it:

https://youtu.be/Ys5eAL-oOS0