Although it might be more broadly applied to 'computers', Asimov's stories around AI and tangents like robots often have the underlying message that it's not so much the technology, so much as how humans use, react and interpret what it's doing.
The AI in Her was dangerous rather than depressing?
> It used to rightfully be something we looked forward to
This is rather unimportant, but I would say that media has usually portrayed AI as a dangerous thing. Space oddysey, Terminator, Mass Effect, Her, Alien, Matrix, Ex Machina, you name it.