> Like yes, we are able to think of thousands of hypothetical ways technology (even those inferior to full AGI) could go off the rails in a catastrophic way and post and discuss these scenarios endlessly... and yet it doesn't result in a slowing or stopping of the progress leading there.
The problem is sifting through all of the doomsayer false positives to get to any amount of cogent advice.
At the invention of the printing press, there were people with this same energy. Obviously those people were wrong. And if we had taken their "lesson", then human society would be in a much worse place.
Is this new wave of criticism about AI/AGI valid? We will only really know in retrospect.
The problem is sifting through all of the doomsayer false positives to get to any amount of cogent advice.
At the invention of the printing press, there were people with this same energy. Obviously those people were wrong. And if we had taken their "lesson", then human society would be in a much worse place.
Is this new wave of criticism about AI/AGI valid? We will only really know in retrospect.