Comment by api

I am always more worried about human actors. I’m more afraid of people with AI than autonomous or even sentient AI.

It’s a “random guy or bear?” question. Would you rather wake up to an alien in your room or a random dude? I’ll take the alien. The alien is mysterious and scary for that reason. The dude is almost definitely up to no good, especially if he snuck into my house.

One of the more likely dystopian AI scenarios that worries me is: small groups of ultra rich people and governments monopolize extremely powerful AIs and use them to rule the rest of us. Or just make everyone obsolete, create mass unemployment, hoard all the resources and land, and put everyone in ghettoes. Nobody can fight back because access to frontier AI is massively expensive and gated and training your own is illegal, and without it there’s no hope of resisting.

That’s the outcome the AI safety crowd makes more likely by calling for bans and draconian restrictions. How do you think that plays out? Only the rich and powerful have access.