To be fair, I think that everyone in a position to actually control the first super-intelligent AGIs will likely already be aware of most of the realistic catastrophic scenarios that humans could preemptively conceive of. The most sophisticated governments and tech companies devote significant resources to assessing risks and creating highly detailed models of disastrous situations.
And on the reverse, even if your scenarios were to become widely discussed on social media and news platforms, something like 99.9999999% of the potential audience for this information probably has absolutely no power to make them come true even if they devoted their lives to it.
If anything, I would think that openly discussing realistic scenarios... (read more)
To be fair, I think that everyone in a position to actually control the first super-intelligent AGIs will likely already be aware of most of the realistic catastrophic scenarios that humans could preemptively conceive of. The most sophisticated governments and tech companies devote significant resources to assessing risks and creating highly detailed models of disastrous situations.
And on the reverse, even if your scenarios were to become widely discussed on social media and news platforms, something like 99.9999999% of the potential audience for this information probably has absolutely no power to make them come true even if they devoted their lives to it.
If anything, I would think that openly discussing realistic scenarios... (read more)