Hal 9000, the malevolent AI in 2001: a space Odyssey, was in one of the most respected films of all time three years before Yudkowsky was born.
Plenty of people have been beating that drum for years.
Plenty of people have been beating that drum for years.
If you want AI gone wrong, Magician's Apprentice.
If you want misalignment between what you wanted and what you actually asked for, Greek myths, Midas or Tithonus would both suffice.
Your original made no mention of sci-fi, and made it sound as if no one had imagined a malicious AI before yudkowski
(edit: you can see that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38116456 responds to the scifi part of my comment as well and was posted before yours https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38116494 (if my assumption that ids are chronological is correct))
"${my favorite work of fiction} mentioned/alluded to it too!" does not make that work of fiction equivalent to a serious take on the topic in real-world context.
It originally credited Mr. Yudkowsky with being the first person to imagine ai as a serious threat to humans, without mentioning that the trope existed in sci-fi, or mentioning sci-fi at all
The pre-edit text must've sounded funny, as from what I remember of Yudkowsky's writings, he frequently referenced old sci-fi tropes about or related to AI, commenting on their relevance and applicability in the real world.