First, you're the popular resistance to AI research. The movement already exists and is already prominent enough to be written up in the New Yorker. If your res

First, you're the popular resistance to AI research. The movement already exists and is already prominent enough to be written up in the New Yorker. If your response is that the resistance is just a small set of people in SF, then I would refer you to the resistance to a much less capable class of systems: generative image models. Artists are having their livelihood (partially) disrupted by AI and they've been quite vigorous in defending themselves through both legal means and public relations. This kind of popular opposition to rapid automation is basically guaranteed given that the gains from such a system would be extremely concentrated in our current social-economic system. It's hard to think of a quick takeover scenario, starting in near present day conditions, that doesn't involve absolutely earth-shattering social and economic re-arrangements. Every factory worker loses their job because we've handed over all material production to robots, and you imagine that there's no political constituency fighting against that change? Remember, we're talking about a near complete destruction of humanity here. Sustaining the infrastructure to support a massive AI doesn't require just a few robots, it would need to fully replace large percentages of the entire world economy, and you think no one would notice or care?