A scenario where AI is perfectly aligned with human beings will still be a nightmare if those humans who control it aren’t particularly decent people who care a

A scenario where AI is perfectly aligned with human beings will still be a nightmare if those humans who control it aren’t particularly decent people who care about the rest of us. The “AI alignment” crowd doesn’t care about any of that. That might be excusable if they had any idea what to do to prevent hypothetical extinction at the hands of AI, but they don’t have that either.