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Quantity is a quality in itself.

In most countries, guns are very strictly controlled. Knives are not. Yet you can kill people with knives as people do.

AI technology is extremely powerful and it can and does enable malicious activities at scale. Scale, previously unthinkable.

As a Research Engineer working in AI (no relation to LLM or AGI), I think that sentient AGI/skynet has a very low, non-zero chance of becoming reality.

But with the AI tech we have today, massive harm can be caused at scale.

The world is far from ready for what bad actors will bring forth enable with the power of AI.