It's

 

already becoming the Hal 9000 in 2001 a  space odyssey.

"In November, a group of researchers at MIT published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrating that analyzing trends in machine learning can provide a window into these mechanisms of higher cognitive brain function. Perhaps even more astounding is the study’s implication that AI is undergoing a convergent evolution with nature — without anyone programming it to do so."

MIT Researchers Just Discovered an AI Mimicking the Brain on Its Own