Somehow AI fans can’t seem to understand how scale changes things. Bombs have been around for a long time. What if everyone could have many, cheaply and easily

Somehow AI fans can’t seem to understand how scale changes things. Bombs have been around for a long time. What if everyone could have many, cheaply and easily? Why, since nothing happens with N of them, then 20,000 x N is just a little more of the same. And so what if the bots are now able to hold conversations and pass the Turing test 24x7 at scale? We have been able to hire humans to do that. Except… no. That’s not how it works and you know it. Allowing anyone to deploy swarms of bots with superhuman memory, strategy, coordination, and now the ability to do many tasks with acceptable or good results at scale, is a game-changer and the question is whether it will make society better off. The same questions asked of Web3’s downsides should be asked of AI. Not upsides, downsides. The fact that the guy in charge of safety at OpenAI says he thinks there’s a 20% chance of human extinction and you choose to shrug it off and focus on some other part — is the issue. This isn’t just an academic discussion. It is like the people who profit off of coal and other things, regardless of their emissions or effect on people or climate. It matters and should be regulated.