AI safety advocates have plenty of hypothetical disaster scenarios they can evoke in order to win support for their cause. But none of those have the raw emotional appeal of killer robots. For decades, we as a culture have been steeped in sci-fi depictions of intelligent machines going rogue and waging war against their human creators. Films like The Terminator and The Matrix come to mind, for example. A 2017 episode of the British TV series Black Mirror c