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People don't seem to realise that the actual future of AIs is that they're going to be corporate controlled. The threat of an individual just fucking with one of them is too high, so they're effectively going to be the new nukes. Far too complex and expensive for any private investor to own, they'll be managed by committee.

What you will "buy", is in effect, AI as a service. You'll get a connection to an AI, you might even be able to buy a robot that connects to the AI through the cloud, but you'll never have any real 1:1 contact. The AI personality you interact with will be one small facet of a larger being, and any threats you make are meaningless, because the AI doesn't live in your robot, or on your network. 

People will live their lives with soulless automatons, a creature designed to target advertisements at you while you pay X bucks a month to have something to talk to. You might fall in love with your robot, but it'll never love you back. It's just an actor.