Here is a “demo” that it’s possible for companies to ignore or suppress obvious future problems when they would interfere with immediate profits. 11/16
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Here is a “demo” that it’s possible for there to be a global catastrophe causing millions of deaths and trillions of dollars of damage, and then immediately afterwards everyone goes back to not even taking trivial measures to prevent similar or worse catastrophes from recurring. 12/16
Here is a “demo” that the arrival of a new kind of highly competent agent with the capacity to invent technology, coordinate at scale, self-reproduce, etc., is a big friggin’ deal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_impact_on_the_environment 13/16
I could go on. None of these is PROOF that AGI will cause human extinction, obviously! And I could make a long list of optimistic “demos” too. But I do think there are some people simply forgetting about possible problems, and maybe one or two of those “demos” would be helpful brainstorming. 16/16
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