I'm worried about stable dictatorships far more than I am about AGI taking over the world and offing humanity because stable dictatorships are already using every weapon they can lay their hands on to control the population and AGI might just tip the scale to the point where they become eternal. And regular AI (the kind that we have today, because AGI is simply not yet a thing that has been achieved afaik) is more than dangerous enough in that context.
There's no question that this is a tomorrow-focused concern, just like climate change or Kessler syndrome, et cetera.
And today's concerns are important too. Nobody is dismissing them. But tomorrow comes quite quickly these days.
You're allowed to be concerned about both.
Kessler syndrome not so much.
Guys with guns and missiles: very much a today thing.
> It can be made to quite easily.
Not really, no. You can of course create an acting-by-itself bot but it will run into limits very very soon, because the world model and planning parts of AI are in their infant stages, if that.
But I'm not talking about the GPT-4 either. Many decades and billions poured into research still didn't give us autonomous driving and there is no clear path how that should happen. So I'm not really holding my breath for anything even more capable.
It can be made to quite easily.
> and worst case you could unplug the bloody thing
Not necessarily.
> But the guys with the guns are the same guys with the guns
Well, unless they are autonomous AI drones with guns (or missiles), in which case they are different “guys” with guns.