Agreed. The immediate action we should be taking to mitigate AGI risk is basically identical to the immediate action we should already be taking to research, re

Agreed. The immediate action we should be taking to mitigate AGI risk is basically identical to the immediate action we should already be taking to research, regulate, hold-accountable, etc. existing dumb-AI systems (e.g. autonomous/remote-control killing machines, black-box oracles being used for medical diagnoses/credit/etc., economic impacts w.r.t. increasing inequality, "taking our jobs", etc.). Even Barack Obama has said as much, so I think all of the sky-is-falling social media buzz is just a hindrance. We should absolutely be funding blue-sky research into mitigating, predicting, controlling, etc. AGIs if/when they're developed. But we are doing that (e.g. intelligence.org ) so, again, the doomsday prophets aren't contributing anything.