I certainly agree with you on that, the importance of artificial intelligence is not to be underestimated. I don't think the majority has actually grasped what the advances in machine learning and reinforcement learning over the last couple of years actually mean for humankind as a whole. It's not just a bot that is capable of beating a human at go or chess, or solving a rubrics cube the most efficient way. Those are toy problems, these advances work for all kinds of planning and classification tasks. Improving the efficiency of power plants, search and rescue robots, medical screening etc.