[SrslyJosh]

> are AI safety folks building models of this pattern?

First you need to ask if AI "safety folks" actually understand the technology, and if they are thinking about it objectively. If they believe that we're a few years away from accidentally creating Skynet, they need to put down the crack pipe and go work in another field.

[immibis]

We have already created Skynet. Its name is Capitalism. Or the Internet. One of those things.

[bamboozled]

I know your downvoted but I don’t think you would be if you had of just said, corporations.

I think oil companies are the greatest existential threat to humanity via lobbying and eventually climate destruction. Second is social media companies. It’s so easy to spread misinformation against a whole populace and it’s going south fast.

There is just too much incentive for those vested in these corporations to just stop.