Comment by TeMPOraL

> I am looking for better reasons (supported by actual evidence!) to be more concerned than I am now: right now I am not concerned at all.

Intelligence is the root cause underlying those dangers.

Nuclear weapons, carbon emissions, biological weapons, and other such civilization-scale threats to humanity, are a product of our goal-seeking intelligence and ingenuity, and are only actively dangerous because of our ongoing use of our intelligence.

AI is about reifying that intelligence and ingenuity and making it run independently on computers, and act on the world.

That includes, in principle, ability to use nuclear and biological and other weapons, and also the ability to come up with some new threats too.