The so called "AI safety" researchers issuing breathless warnings about the dangers of superintelligence are nothing but grifters. They are the modern equivalent of shaman, telling the common people that they need ever increasing amounts of resources to continue their vital work in protecting us from wrathful spirits. There is zero actual scientific evidence to support their claims. It is essentially a modern-day secular religion.

(There is value in doing research and ethical analysis into AI/ML statistical algorithms to prevent hidden biases or accidental physical harm. People working in those areas are producing real benefits for the rest of us and I'm not criticizing them.)