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So all those CEOs and CTOs are wrong, and you along with the skeptic camp see the true nature of AI.

But let's assume for the sake of argument that you are wrong. What are the logical implications? Can your worldview allow for the possibility that you might be wrong?

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> So all those CEOs and CTOs are wrong, and you along with the skeptic camp see the true nature of AI.

This kind of a statement assumes that all those CEOs did exhaustive, detailed, independent research to arrive at the conclusion that AI is the next big thing.

IME more often than not, they're just following the herd in a way that ends up being a circle.

Sure, but the herd can still be right from time to time. While it's impossible to accurately predict the future course of AI progress, we can at least agree that the rapid take-off scenario is at least plausible, and that, if it happens, it logically leads to dramatic social and political changes unprecedented in the last centuries; in that scenario, AI-empowered human political operators will quickly become dangerous to humanity and they pose a far greater and earlier threat than the comic book scenario where unaligned AI takes over. We had unaligned HI from the very beginning.

Whether or not they are right isn't the issue.

The real issue is: what are the consequences if they are right - and what should be done to mitigate them.

a lot of people were wrong about supersonic commercial flight too

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