>"based on my first-hand experience, have I seen anything, anything at all, that would organically (not influenced) make me think/feel this technology can or will evolve into something capable of killing off humanity?"
>On a purely technical basis, the most common, honest answer is "no."
lol, wat?
Ok, so you're saying it's fine if I go tell GPT-7 to go kill everyone on the planet and it does, because it didn't think of the idea itself.
This kind of thinking is why AI is never going to get a chance to kill us all. We will kill us all with AI first.