On: The illusion of AI’s existential risk

[__loam]

That point is basically what the article is about.

[ggm → __loam]

It can't be repeated enough apparently, because people still whine on about skymesh and "but IFF the robots wake up" when the real risk is what people believe machine derived "facts" are (I quote facts because they are highly conjectural inferences from models, and often diverge from fact pretty rapidly)

[yanderekko → ggm]

>when the real risk is what people believe machine derived "facts" are

It's hard to play out a scenario where this leads to actual human extinction.