The Skynet Terminator future seems unlikely at this point. The fear shouldn't be some future in which AI takes over and enslaves humanity. The real fear is how

The Skynet Terminator future seems unlikely at this point. The fear shouldn't be some future in which AI takes over and enslaves humanity. The real fear is how these AIs will be used by nefarious actors. Phishing attacks. Misinformation. Deepfakes. These are the threats of AI that exist today. There's literally another thread on the Hacker News frontpage right now titled "Joe Rogan Issues Warning After AI-Generated Version of His Podcast Surfaces." Or take this story: https://www.wired.com/story/large-language-model-phishing-scams/ https://www.wired.com/story/large-language-model-phishing-sc... The real fear of future should really be that AI is only going to improve and get better at running phishing attacks, and generating deepfakes and misinformation. It's already happening today, and these problems are only going to get worse. Let's talk about optimism of future. To all of you who keep talking about "hindering progress", what utopian future do you hope we're racing towards? How is AI really going to improve our lives? And is it really worth the risk? Or maybe it's just people hoping to get rich off the hype train, in the same way as cryptocurrency...