Comment by jswelker
1 day ago
That's a weak consolation. "Don't worry, nukes can't literally end humanity, just kill billions and dramatically immiserate the remnant forever. No worries guys."
AI doesn't have to turn us all into paper clips to make the world a really bad place.
I am not arguing about "bad things might happen".
I am specifically arguing hard against the concept that 100% of humans - or even 50% of humans could be killed by any mechanism at all. Humans would find it close to impossible. A computer program - come on.
This is the topic at hand - AI might wipe out humanity - it is being discussed all around the world by people who should know better - any it's the most fictionish of fictional fictions.
It's also a fairly useless straw man at this point.