Look for second order effects here: https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1536008920375754752 https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1536008920375754752 First

Look for second order effects here: https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1536008920375754752 https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1536008920375754752 First would be that this (completely bonkers) claim will also paint any subsequent claims as also bonkers. Which is Bad, because with 100% probability, at some point in the near or medium future we'll hit on the real deal. Second is that the first reflex of a human being who thought he saw a real AI was to give it rights and autonomy. That's something that actually never clicked for me until now. I always thought the danger is simply in not recognizing the first dangerous AIs, not that everybody will agree they're (super)intelligent, but we'll be hamstrung to defend against it by the public opinion. Our chances of surviving this just got a lot lower. And in case anybody will protest that AIs will not be an enemy, I'll paraphrase EY: they don't want to kill you; it's just that you're made of atoms they may need for other things.