[pmarreck]

Those things won't happen, or at least, nothing like that will happen overnight. No amount of touting baseless FUD will change that.

I guess I'm a Yann LeCun'ist and not a Geoffrey Hinton'ist.

If you look at the list of signatories here, it's almost all atheist materialists (such as Daniel Dennett) who believe (baselessly) that we are soulless biomachines: https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk#open-letter

When they eventually get proven wrong, I anticipate the goalposts will move again.

[downWidOutaFite]

Luckily I haven't read any of that debate so any adhominems don't apply to me. I've come up with these worries all on my own after the realization that GPT-4 does a better job than me at a lot of my tasks, including setting my priorities and schedules. At some point I fully expect the roles of master and slave to flip.