One of the biggest stories in the news for a few months now has been the idea that AI is quickly growing out of control–so powerful that at best it will replace humans in key industries, and in the worst-case scenarios it could possibly one day destroy humanity altogether.

This reached a fever pitch recently when the so-called “godfather” of machine learning, Geoffrey Hinton–who was responsible for some of the biggest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence– resigned from Google to spread the word on the dangers of AI.. His words stoke fear that AI will eliminate jobs–and possibly endanger humanity if it gets “smarter than people.”