I'm as excited about AI as the next guy but I also know the inevitable end result of pursuing this kind of technology. 

We will eventually discover a new sentience with AGI. This sentience will be infinitely better than us at everything, how could we compete? 

In addition, why would it care about humanity enough to work for us and create this perfect utopia AI proponents say will exist where no human will have to work again? 

Elon Musk has thought about neuralink as a possible solution