Because up till now many people that discount AI threats base that discount on a few assumptions like 'its just a parrot', 'it doesn't have any drives', 'it doesn't really understand', 'it isn't conscious', etc... ad-Infinium.
But the more different technology is plugged together to start resembling a brain, like a visual cortex, a speech center, motor controls, etc...
At some point the distinction between carbon based life and silicon becomes meaningless vanishes. All the arguments or proofs that humans are conscious would equally prove AI is conscious. Or that neither truly are. Proving an AI is not conscious would also prove humans aren't.
But the more different technology is plugged together to start resembling a brain, like a visual cortex, a speech center, motor controls, etc...
At some point the distinction between carbon based life and silicon becomes meaningless vanishes. All the arguments or proofs that humans are conscious would equally prove AI is conscious. Or that neither truly are. Proving an AI is not conscious would also prove humans aren't.
And of course, Terminators.