Fearing the terrible things others might do to you or those you love is mostly a futile activity. Because believe it or not, most humans are just living their own lives, and loving those they hold dear. I could doubt my long distance relationship now our gettogethers become slightly more sparse, but I won't. Because I know my sweety's fears and expectations. She simply does not have a dark streak in her body.
Likewise, I do not fear the rapid progress of "artificial" intelligence, since I do not consider it artificial: Intelligence like Consciousness is what I label as an emergent property resulting from higher and higher complexity. And those who fear it do so because they fear it is like them...