Talking about positive vs negative outcomes I think it's relevant to deeply focus on both. Just as it is natural for cynicism to exist, it's also natural for optimists to exist. Focusing on the positive helps maintain motivation and drive toward progress. But even though cynicism is counterproductive, you also need to respect negative consequences, especially for AGI. And the reason simply is that the technology will be irreversible, extremely powerful and that there's a risk that it will not be controllable. AI safety researchers have a bunch of papers out on the worries (and solutions to some of them), and it's common to see a need for ~4 decades of AGI safety research and thinking that AGI could be less than that away.,(reply>), Terminator is an example of a poor representation of what a bad AGI might look like. A bad AGI is much more likely to be like a stamp collection optimizer that turns the entire world into stamp utility, preventing humans from turning it off because it would mean less stamps. It doesn't have to be conscious to be bad. I think the AI safety researchers actual concerns need to be more common in the public spectrum, rather than easily dismissable dystopian scenarios. Because it's an important part of our future, and thus it's something that concerns a lot of people.