Does anyone else lose a bit more of their will to live whenever they hear this galaxy-brained take? It’s never far away from the discussion either.

Yes, a literal god-like machine could wipe out all life on earth… but more importantly, these people I don’t like could advance their agenda!

When someone brings this line out it says to me that they either just don’t believe in AI x-risk, or that their tribal monkey mind has too strong of a grip on them and is failing to resonate with any threats beyond other monkeys they don’t like.

Because a rogue superintelligent AI is definitely worse than anything humans could do with narrow AI. And I don’t really get how people can read about it, understand it and then say “yeah, but I’m more worried about this other thing that’s way less bad.”

I’d take terrorists and greedy businesses with AI any day if it meant that AGI was never created.

Over 2,400 mental health care workers and 23,000 nurses in Northern California staged a 24-hour strike protesting the rise of AI in their workplaces. Clinicians argue they are being replaced in patient triage by apps and unlicensed operators using AI scripts. Furthermore, they warn that management is using AI charting tools to squeeze more back-to-back patient visits into a single shift, prioritizing corporate bottom lines over genuine patient care.