Flight is actually a perfect counterexample to x-risk nonsense. When flight was invented, people naturally assumed that it would continue advancing until we had

Flight is actually a perfect counterexample to x-risk nonsense. When flight was invented, people naturally assumed that it would continue advancing until we had flying cars and could get anywhere on the globe in a matter of minutes. Turns out there are both economic and practical limits to what is possible with flight and modern commercial airplanes don't look much different than those from 60 years ago. AGI/x-risk alarmists are looking at the Wright Brothers plane and trying to prevent/ban supersonic flying cars, even though it's not clear the technology will ever be capable of such a thing.