How do we not allow it to keep developing? Big, big, big money is involved.
But it seems counter productive and self destructive to some extent. Taking it to the extreme in hopes of persuing the 'Singularity' (putting a human's consciouness into a robotic vessel, which some of those big $$ (and big ego) guys like Musk might see as a good thing, for them at least is good example of one of those things that just because we
can do, is not necessarily something we
should do. Robots to do certain jobs very risky for humans, like mining, exploration is one thing--
I have not heard anything about any of the producers of AI robots even considering programing them with Azimov's suggested laws, which would preclude them turning on us, perhaps reasoning out that we're either just unnecessary or actually a threat to them.
i have read that Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs has said he thinks AI robots once they can repair and replicate themselves would not need people. He took a somewhat bleak view of our future, perhaps as 'pets'?.
On another forum a few years ago i wrote a rebuttal to that prediction, which included having some common sense and foresight about how they get programmed and and for what.