Agreed! But there is no evidence of the eventuality described by these AI doomers. The same hyperbole was employed by Ehrlich in the late 60s when we were talk

Agreed! But there is no evidence of the eventuality described by these AI doomers. The same hyperbole was employed by Ehrlich in the late 60s when we were talking about the population bomb, or Nevil Shute in 1945 on the nuclear apocalypse - both scenarios seem to be increasingly unlikely. I think we can both agree on the fallibility of human beings – but the leaps of logic require such a tenuous series of gymnastic leaps that the polemic is not only hard to take seriously, but indeed can cloud our ability to perceive actual threats! From Eliezer's recent article in TIME: "A sufficiently intelligent AI won’t stay confined to computers for long. In today’s world you can email DNA strings to laboratories that will produce proteins on demand, allowing an AI initially confined to the internet to build artificial life forms or bootstrap straight to postbiological molecular manufacturing." (https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/ https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...) C'mon.