- People are mostly incentivized to compete, not to cooperate
- Antibiotic resistance
- Clean water supply
- etc..
- What about if AI becomes AGI (whatever that actually means, it's not even clear)?
- Well, if that DID happen soon, which we can't actually know, well, what about if it tried to kill us all? (why? who the fuck knows, maybe it will chat us to death).
Meanwhile there is a very real certainty of catastrophic environmental damage that will decimate future generations, if it doesn't actually cause us to go extinct. And what do we get? People hand wringing over this ultimate what if, rather than signing every public statement document they can find to try to get an actual intervention on climate destruction.
I'm not talking (oh in 10 years maybe we'll have more EVs) kind of intervention, more like, let's get every country in the world to be off oil and gas in 5 years, not just for EVs but for almost everything possible, and where not possible let's use carbon neutral biofuel.
AI literally can end humanity, every single individual potentially. But definitely replace humans as the apex predator of the planet. It is also consistently voted the highest likelihood cause if humanity is to end in the next 100 years. https://riskfrontiers.com/insights/ranking-of-potential-caus...
We should stop the climate change fear mongering. Yeah we shouldn't burn fossil as if its consequence free. But New York and Santa Monica beach should've been under water 20 years ago if the climate alarmist are correct. That's a far cry from pretending it's some number 1 priority. It shouldn't be even close. Having climate to distract us from things that will actually end us is the dumbest own goal possible for our species.
https://www.sfu.ca/biology2/rEEding/pdfs/Leung_et_al_Cluster...
But it's a common theme. These claims get attention and journalists don't check, so they proliferate. Dig in to any given claim and you'll find they're all built on statistical quicksand.