Comment by ayakang31415
2 years ago
Ilya is definitely much smarter than me in AI space, and I believe he knows something I have no grasp of understanding in. But my gut feeling tells me that most of the general public will have no idea how dangerous AI could be including me. I still have yet to see a convincing argument about the potential danger of AI. Arguments such as we don't know the upper bounds of possibilities that AI can do that we humans have missed don't cut it for me.
Here's a rough primer: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWDPHhjtiesc/agi-ruin-a...
Caveat that it will probably make your life worse, with no ability to change the course of events, so I wouldn't blame you or others for maintaining ignorance or denial. Grappling with the gravity of the problem is essentially a terminal cancer diagnosis with no good medical interventions in the horizon.