[rsynnott]

> but when people talk about AI harms, especially harms in the “risk to all human life” category, I’m increasingly convinced that it’s an intentional misdirect away from the very real harms that are happening in front of us - right now.

I'm not sure that it's _intentional_; a lot of people are in deep into the "superhuman AIs" thing, in a quasi-religious way. But certainly the approach to "AI safety" is far too much "what if a sci-fi thing happens?" and not enough "what if people take the output of the spicy autocomplete seriously?" It's really mostly a human factors problem, at least for now; these things are being used completely inappropriately (and of course the companies making them have an interest in that; constraining them to appropriate low-risk uses would make them useful approximately nowhere).