AI’s biggest risk is the corporations that control them
I fully agree that malicious corporations and governments are the largest risk here. However, I think it's incredibly important to reject the reframing of "AI safety" as anything other than the existential risk AGI poses to most of humanity.What will the world look like when AGI is finally achieved, and the corporations and governments that control them rapidly have millions of useless mouths to feed? We might end up living in a utopic post-scarcity society where literally every basic need is furnished by a fully automated industrial base. But there are no guarantees that the entities in control will take things in that direction.AI safety is not about whether "tech bros are going to be mean to women".
AI safety is about whether my government is concerned with my continued comfortable existence once my economic value as a general intelligence is reduced to zero.