Chrkeller said:
The divide is you are concerned about a theoretical threat. I'm concerned about actual threats. |
The "theoretical threat" could be species extinction though. The "current day politics threats" are not.
Even global warming, I'm not saying at all that it shouldn't be a concern and people shouldn't want to take steps to mitigate it, but human beings are not magically going to go extinct even if the global temperature rises by 3-4 degrees. Your ancestors survived the Ice Age when the climate of the planet was brutally far more different without any benefit of any modern technology. No working toilets, no insulated homes, no shopping mall to go buy a winter jacket and gloves from, no grocery store to get food from, no modern medicine, no understanding of mathematics or science really, we still survived. You're only here because they were able to survive that.
You may not be concerned with A.I., but your kids will be when they are your age. Don't kid yourself about that. I think it will be the pressing issue for their generation.
We don't have any experience of what co-existing with a human level (or better) intelligence might be like. The best kind of intelligence we've come head to head against are like bonobo monkeys, chimpanzees (basically our cousins) or dolphins, we're not remotely even ready for what could be coming.