I care about the future of the planet and the way the "anti AI" people are acting is very pro AI. It's incredibly worrying and hypocritical behavior. I'm not angry or annoyed, I just want to try to get through to people. But given the overall sentiment I've seen here and elsewhere, I think this is a much larger cultural problem that one person isn't going to fix. The dismissive reactions to AI safety incidents are just the tip of the iceberg. As several experts and researchers have predicted, it might take some catastrophes or semi-apocalyptic incidents in which millions of people die or are severely impacted by AI before the public take AI risk and the colossal threats it poses seriously and stop downplaying or writing it off as science fiction. The problem is that humans are very bad at planning ahead and acting pre-emptively to prevent disaster until it's already happened, and also terrible at heeding warnings and evidence. We did the same with climate change and pandemics, and we still are far from sufficiently acting on those problems.
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