Comment by haswell

> There are just as many reasons to fear the lives lost if we do slow down the progress of AI tech (drug cures, scientific breakthroughs, etc).

While I’m cautious about over regulation, and I do think there’s a lot of upside potential, I think there’s an asymmetry between potentially good outcomes and potentially catastrophic outcomes.

What worries me is that it seems like there are far more ways it can/will harm us than there are ways it will save us. And it’s not clear that the benefit is a counteracting force to the potential harm.

We could cure cancer and solve all of our energy problems, but this could all be nullified by runaway AGI or even more primitive forms of AI warfare.

I think a lot of caution is still warranted.