Reasons why AI probably won't kill us all - by Maxim Lott

I’ve been following the AI doom debate about whether AI will end human life on Earth, after it becomes smarter than humans. AIs can already chat at a near-human level, drive cars, write essays, draw beautiful art in seconds, beat people at board games, help us write computer programs, and mimic voices. Progress has been so rapid that many people are now taking seriously a world in which AI becomes generally smarter than people (at which point it’ll be called “AGI”, or Artificial General Intelligence.) The US government is concerned. The Biden administration recently released regulations forcing major AI companies to release safety test data to the government. Some are hyperbolic about the risk. Eliezer Yudkowsky, a co-founder of the major AI safety think tank MIRI, and one of the first to loudly warn about AGI, wrote that given society’s attitudes towards AI, “doubling our chances of survival will only take them from 0% to 0%.” Also, a letter signed by thousands of researchers and tech

I’ve been following the AI doom debate about whether AI will end human life on Earth, after it becomes smarter than humans. AIs can already chat at a near-human level, drive cars, write essays, draw beautiful art in seconds, beat people at board games, help us write computer programs, and mimic voices. Progress has been so rapid that many people are now taking seriously a world in which AI becomes generally smarter than people (at which point it’ll be called “AGI”, or Artificial General Intelligence.) The US government is concerned. The Biden administration recently released regulations forcin