I was bashing my head into walls since 2017 or so when people were saying AI will eat the world and we have to worry about non-alignment and I felt insane realizing no one else even asked if it was manufactured hype. People in my life to this day are still falling for these tactics despite, to me, seeming bright regarding everything else.

To be clear, it is true that transformers did change things but the merchants are still over selling it and everyone else laps it up while not meta-thinking about it for even one second.

It may be hype, but there's plenty of solid logic behind the general case.

There's also a huge range of practical demonstrations of non-aligned, monomaniacal and not particularly smart intelligences, that literally eat humans: bacteria.

(Also lions and tigers and bears, if you want to insist that evolution doesn't itself count as intelligence).

It's like in the 1990s - (a) the internet will revolutionize commerce so (b) you should buy Webvan. One can be true without the other and (a) took a while. But a lot of people bought Webvan and similar back in the day.