TechnoCalyps: Preparing for the Singularity

I have just watched the above documentary, I have to say it has left me feeling extremely 'schizophrenic'. I find it hard to be optimistic about the new technologies that are appearing and are expected. Its not the technologies that really bother me, its the damn monkeys behind the machines.
Its not hard to see that new technologies are first and foremost used to kill other people. The explosion in technologies that accompanied the I and II world wars was as a simple consequence of people wanting to be able to enforce there will on others by the use of exploding munitions and one on one combat to make the other bend to there will. People accuse me of taking Terminator or even the Unabomber to seriously. But what if..... Why on earth would any sentient computer want to keep us around. We need to remember that these 'thinking AI machines' probably wont exist on an empathic or emotional system, they'll use cold logic and in the light of cold logic we are just a virus destroying a planet, a planet we need to survive. Not a hard or difficult decision to get rid of a virus, but that is exactly how we will be seen by anything with a logic based brain. Even logic based humans end up pretty nihilistic.

I don't want to stop progress or even stop technologies from being invented. A moratorium on what we're actually trying to do. Why is it such a crime to stop and look around.