It's important context that Sherman was concerned about Superintelligence risks, broadly construed, decades ago.

In 2007 he gave a speech in which he said:

There is one issue that I think is more explosive than even the spread of nuclear weapons: engineered intelligence. By that I mean, the efforts of computer engineers and bio-engineers who may create intelligence beyond that of a human being. In testimony at the House Science Committee1, the consensus of experts testifying was that in roughly 25 years we would have a computer that passed the Turing Test,2 and more importantly, exceeded human intelligence.

As we develop more intelligent computers, we will find them useful tools in creating ever more intelligent computers, a positive feedback loop. I don't know whether we will create the maniacal Hal from 2001, or the earnest Data from Star Trek --- or perhaps both.

There are those who say don't worry, even if a computer is intelligent and malevolent --- it is in a box and it cannot affect the world. But I believe that there are those of our species who sell hands to the Beelzebub, in return for a good stock tip.