"AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating" by Kelsey Piper. It came out several weeks ago, but I only found it now and thought other people would want to see it. I think it's one of the best introductory articles on AI risk for people unfamiliar with AI (for more, see this doc). Here are my thoughts:
I like the concluding paragraph (emphasis mine):
For a long time, AI safety faced the difficulty of being a research field about a far-off problem, which is why only a small number of researchers were even trying to figure out how to make it safe. Now, it has the opposite problem: The challenge is here, and it’s just not clear if we’ll solve it in time.