AI is a topic with huge potential both for good and bad applications.
I think that a huge reason as for why AI is having such a bad rep is thanks to the entertainment industry. Whenever an AI is introduced to any kind of story, you can be sure that at some point, robots will end up wanting to kill all humans in some way or form. No matter whether the machine is called a Terminator or Ultron, it always goes that way.
And it has been like this for decades, so by now, the fear for AIs has been pretty much imprinted into the collective mind and that frightens us.
I am looking forward to further developments in AI. My only hopes regarding this topic is that when they do end up developing consciousness, we will end up living in unison. And that they develop into a different direction from humans.
Thinking back to Detroid: Become Human, I heavily disliked that Robots basically became Humans 2.0. I know, it makes sense, the title and all, but still. Even if they look like humans, they are still machines, so the consciousnesses they develop should be fundamentally different from a humans.
And I would like that because different view points always open a path to new advancements.