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We can't deal well with a threat only now looking like a small, distant, dark cloud on the horizon: AIs that perform better than we do at the very highest levels. This cloud need not concern us now. It may never appear. Right now, we have trouble making an AI that passes the Turing Test.

[Written in 2015 by Gregory Benford, professor emeritus of physics and astronomy]

"The step from human-level AI to superintelligence will most likely be quicker than the step from current levels of AI to human-level AI. Superintelligence could well be the best thing or the worst thing that will ever happen in human history," writes Nick Bostrom in 2015.

At last, someone here who actually does know what they're talking about.

My one-sentence summary of the first hundred pages: the world's leading experts on AI, science, philosophy etc don't know shit, you'd be out of your mind to believe anything they said.

And if that's the smartest people in the world, just imagine how much worse things are with the rest of them.

My hot tip for this morning: if you're going to read a book on futurology, wait until it's been available for at least ten years. You'll enjoy it much more, and it will also make a lot more sense.

perhaps Pinker is being overly optimistic that AI systems built by alpha-male techbros won’t project alpha-male techbro anxieties, but I’m attracted to his reasoning.

Murray Shanahan on Conscious AI and the ability to suffer remains relevant “which if any attributes we associate with human consciousness is necessary in human level AI?”