“There is also an optimism in dismissing fears of AI Doomsday as mere marketing. This optimism is most palpable in the economic bubble piece of this story. For some, the AI bubble bursting functions as a kind of Biblical Flood, promising to wash away all of the issues arising from the AI industry. When it finally happens, we will be free of AI customer service agents, AI psychosis, AI in education, AI taking over our jobs, and so on. Unfortunately, this is generally not how bubbles work. Most crucially, the real problem with this narrative is that there are real reasons to be afraid. Not in a “Skynet superintelligent AI turning on humanity in a sci-fi judgment day scenario,” but in the incredibly banal “as soon as the powers that be find AI models sufficiently capable to be put in charge of defense, weapons development and guidance (including bioweapons), and information, they will do it.” Smiling serenely and saying (correctly) AI is not super intelligent or sentient will not stop it from being used as though it is. Therein lies the real existential threat: not Skynet, but Shitty Skynet.” Bravo to @Ord_Snowflake on this excellent contribution to the conversation about AI. Whether you are persuaded by fears of superintelligence or not, the things we need to do to prevent the most catastrophic risks are the same. Let’s come together and do it! powermapmag.substack.com/p/s…