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Right? Humans are more than capable of severely harming civilization at any point, but for some reason this AI narrative is so much more compelling than the boring old issues we're used to. I still don't get the reasoning - we have pretty good text and image generators, yes - but the article jumps the ship to a whole different universe, one where "AI" is an actual entity that has needs and that outpaces humans in all possible facets. Yet, despite the wide gap between what we have and what they're talking about, this level of AI is treated as if it's not just feasible, but basically already here.

The article constantly refers to a strange niche sub-community of pro-AI people, and extrapolates it to say that almost anyone who backs new technology is a hyper-capitalist libertarian who just wants to see the world burn for the sake of money. I feel that the opposite ideology is also far from pure - with this immense reaction to generative AI, it almost feels like big companies are capitalizing on fear to promote regulations that shut out anyone who's not a big company that publishes fancy charts about "risks of catastrophe".