[reducesuffering]

Bengio is a professor and Hinton quit Google so that he could make warnings like this.

And this is just to highlight that there are clearly many familiar people expressing "worry about AIs taking over humanity" as per GP.

There are much more in depth explanations from many of these people.

What's actually amusing is skeptics complaining about $-incentives to people warning about dangers as opposed to the trillion dollar AI industry: Google, Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, all of VC, trying to bring it about. Honestly the $ is so lopsided in the other direction. Reminds me of climate change, all the "those people are just in the renewable energy industry lobby"...

[hueho]

But the trillion dollar industry also signed this statement, that's the point - high ranking researchers and executives from these companies signed the letter. Individually these people may have valid concerns, and I not saying all of them have financial self-interest, but the companies themselves would not support a statement that would strangle their efforts. What would strangle their efforts would be dealing with the other societal effects AI is causing, if not directly then by supercharging bad (human) actors.

[goalieca]

I may be cynical but I’ve seen a lot of AI hype artists warn about the danger as a form of guerrilla marketing. Who knows though.