To me, Elon is playing catch-up and thrown his hat in the Yudkowsky club although Bostrom and other more credentialled people were probably his vector into it.

To me, Elon is playing catch-up and thrown his hat in the Yudkowsky club although Bostrom and other more credentialled people were probably his vector into it. They were talking about this stuff 10-20 years ago. I haven't yet seen anything where Elon moves the ball forward conceptually, although he's a doer so he's not messing around with writing futurism documents and nitpicking details of rationality that almost no one is actually capable of implementing. On the other hand, Brooks doesn't show any indication he knows what Musk is talking about and throws out a bad summary of his position. I got nothing from this article except a slightly lower respect for Brooks. The real minds to watch IMO is the Hinton + Deep Mind crew, and I think Yudkowsky and the fearmongers are largely correct, or at least correct enough to be taken seriously. I don't think people following the meme 'real AI researchers know that AI is limited and fragile' are on the right track. So that's my bias.