Sensationalism is a manipulation tactic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkmanship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkmanship LLMs and existential threats don

Sensationalism is a manipulation tactic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkmanship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkmanship LLMs and existential threats don't get mentioned in the same breath, at least by the serious non-tinfoil-hat types. Preeminent concerns include global warming and sustaining Malthusian growth. AI (and more specifically, OpenAI) indeed deserves to be relegated to the echelons of celebrity drama and not the grown-up table of scientific progress. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.