People always want to fixate on something popular. As you say, there is literally no pathway right now from AI to annihilating humanity, but we like do dwell on

People always want to fixate on something popular. As you say, there is literally no pathway right now from AI to annihilating humanity, but we like do dwell on in. Meanwhile, disease research, antibiotic resistance, actual global conflict or proxy conflict between nuclear superpowers, climate change (whether the direct effect or misguided attempts to geo engineer it away), etc all have (maybe at different levels of probability) at least a clear causal way they could seriously harm people. But we'd rather talk about how a chatbot will somehow kill us.