However, when we move away from deterministic application of computing power to stochastic ones we go from leading the computer to being led by them.   

The increasing power and influence of AI machines is scary.   The reason that it is scary is for the same reason that a human being is scary.   You trust that a human being has human qualities but we know that there are sociopaths among us.   

A computer has no human qualities.   
   ➛ What keeps it from being a sociopath?   
   ➛ What keeps AI from turning against its creators?   
The answer is: NOTHING.   

But it is not only the threat of malignancy but it is the constant propagandizing that AI is capable of that should concern us.   

When something is computer generated to reflect or represent a real thing, the question is: How true to the real thing is the representation?   

If you do not have the ability to personally verify the representation against the real, you must TRUST the computer that generated the representation.   

But computers are programmed.   All programs are the codification of a vision by the designer that is then implemented by the programmer who interprets the design and implements it.   

In the case of AI, the designer becomes less important and the programmer irrelevant - at least with respect to the implementation of the specific application.   

In really good AI, the computer fills in missing pieces of data and missing pieces of coding logic with its own data and decisions.   

Accordingly the end product is real but it may not be reflective of anything that is real or good or beneficial.