[janee]

What exactly is the concern here? I scanned through the article but there so much...for lack of a better word cruft, in there yet so little about what the underlying issue is.

Is it that AGI will take over all jobs? Or are we talking Von Neumann probes or what? Because I just see a bunch of fear mongering words.

Personally I think this is the greatest thing since slice bread and is going to increase efficiencies across several data intensive industries. The future is bright!

[hollerith]

The concern is that all the humans die as a result of AI researchers who believe or hope they know what they are doing but in reality do not.

[janee]

so...AI kills us (waves hands in the air). Ah yes clear as mud.

[hollerith]

Like a lot of submissions to HN, this one is addressed to a specific audience already familiar with the argument that AI research is dangerous.