> You kind of put yourself in a trap thinking AI will behave as smart as possible if it's looking at manipulating people. Not at all. You're missing my point.

> You kind of put yourself in a trap thinking AI will behave as smart as possible if it's looking at manipulating people. Not at all. You're missing my point. Intelligence (even super intelligence) is not enough, because we already have that and it doesn't really result in outsized impacts. Our social structures are designed so that power and wealth accrue to the top and incumbency advantage outplays almost everything else. The only way in which ASI creates any impacts is to accelerate what is already happening if it can be thoroughly reined in by those already in power, otherwise it really doesn't seem to me that it will do much. My AI doomer take is that we're going to (we already are, actually) shoot ourselves in the foot by making everything worse for no benefit by getting rid of actual human experts and replacing them with non-intelligent models, causing a major backslide in society-level capabilities across the board, because the people in power are too stupid to know the difference. I am personally witnessing this in real-time in multiple parts of the tech industry. You give /wayyyy/ too much credit to those in power, that they are "playing dumb". Not really, they are actually dumb, in some cases severely so. I am not saying this an external observer who is watching a sound-bite on television, I am saying this as someone who is regularly in the room with very senior people across industry and am utterly shocked at the complete lack of competence and understanding of the core technologies they're theoretically responsible for shepherding. It's not surprising at all to me that they believe claims about LLMs that are clearly false, because they lack the necessary technical literacy to evaluate those claims and the LLMs perfectly fit into their optimization around yes-men, so they're happy to believe them whether they're true or false, as they see themselves as insulated from any consequences. More than 300k people have been laid off across the tech industry in the last 18 months, most of them accompanying claims of "AI", when in actuality, no net positive impacts have been seen, either for the companies themselves or any of the people that remain. So, yeah, not really concerned with ASI / Terminator scenarios, we're going to fuck ourselves over long before we get there just out of Dunning-Kruger and general MBA stupidity.