>So I can't see the idea that AI will be safe by default other than wishful thinking. I... don't think anyone is arguing that AI is safe in any way? I mean, t

>So I can't see the idea that AI will be safe by default other than wishful thinking. I... don't think anyone is arguing that AI is safe in any way? I mean, the pattern matching tools we call AI now are already deployed in very dangerous weapons. My point is not that AI is going to be safe and warm and fuzzy, or even that it won't be an existential threat. My point is that we're already facing several existential threats that don't require additional technological development to destroy society, and because the existing threats don't require postulating entirely new classes of compute machinery, we should probably focus on them first. There are still enough nuclear weapons in the world for a global war to end society and most of us. A conflict like we saw in the first half of the 20th century using modern weapons would kill nearly all of us, and we are seeing a global resurgence of early 20th century political ideas. I think this is the biggest danger to the continuation of humanity right now. We haven't killed ourselves yet... but the danger is still there. we still have apocalyptic weapons aimed and ready to go at a moment's notice. We still face the danger of those weapons becoming cheaper and easier to produce as we advance industrially.