"Many of these newly minted student leaders view rogue AI as an urgent and neglected threat, potentially rivaling climate change in its ability to end human life."

This is horrifying/ridiculous. Climate change is happening now, it's here. A.I. may never even exist.

Link: https://wapo.st/3NGlmQJ

@charliejane but what if it did, Charlie? What. If. It. Did.

@annaleen @charliejane As the people who teach the firearms courses that train Americans to perforate each other at the drop of a hat like to say "It's not the odds, it's the consequences.”

Can we afford to ignore the terrible consequences of creating a malicious AGI merely because the odds of it actually happening are infinitesimally small?

Of course, by the same logic, we should be deeply worried about being invaded by space scorpions from Sirius B, but for some reason no one seems to care.