I'm far more worried about a sentient human using an AI to cause harm for their own ends. AI is nothing but a force multiplier, and as far as outcomes go, ther

I'm far more worried about a sentient human using an AI to cause harm for their own ends. AI is nothing but a force multiplier, and as far as outcomes go, there's not much difference to my smoking corpse whether the decision to kill me came from a meat brain or a silicon brain. In 1962, John F. Kennedy famously said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." But AI can make violent revolution impossible as well, by tracking and surveilling and intervening. The fewer people are needed to maintain such a system, the easier the end of democracy will be. It's not going to happen today, or tomorrow, but that's what I'm betting my money on for "end of society as we know it" scenarios.