Perhaps, "nobody" is convinced AI would give everyone what they want. It already doesn't and the trend towards spoiling an "everyone" to death is the least of the sum of all fears.
However, the threat to "some" may be real. With terrible power comes terrible responsibility. How long still before that particular ferryman demands its tax? In the main, I think AI could prove more useful than destructive. The same can't be said for the humans who control it - ultimately. I think if there's a social fear that has merit, it would emanate from that quarter. AI may well become a "scale tipper". Is that what humanity really want? On Tue, 22 Sept 2026, 06:12 Matt Mahoney, <[email protected]> wrote: > What scares you the most? AI controlled by a few trillionaires? AI > controlled by China? Or AI controlled by nobody? > > Noah Smith thinks China. Surveys in China show a much more positive and > optimistic attitude toward AI than in the US. He thinks the best way to get > China to join the US in slowing down AI is to scare them by using Chinese > AI to demonstrate attacks on Chinese systems. > https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/two-missing-pieces-in-the-ai-safety > > Nobody seems worried that we might solve alignment, distribute control to > all of humanity, and then AI kills us by giving us the state of maximum > utility that we all want. > > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2026, 5:11 PM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My point is the very people who are worried about safety are the ones >> making it unsafe by their resistance to truth. By the way I include Elon >> Musk in that company despite his virtue signaling the word "truth" more >> than anyone else. But he at least seems to be sincere I'll be at not very >> serious. The others are transparently insincere. To them virtue signaling >> doesn't even involve truth. It involves the de facto supremacist theocracy >> of inclusion. Any facts getting the way of cramming down the throats of >> the world's population the politics of inclusion are immoral facts hence >> false by definition. >> >> On Mon, Sep 21, 2026, 7:38 AM John Rose via AGI <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Sunday, September 20, 2026, at 3:03 PM, James Bowery wrote: >>> >>> "It isn't safe." >>> >>> >>> The AI narratives and psyops are running all over the place now. Follow >>> the money. >>> >> *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T25fb5a030fcfa28e-Me0617676a1fff31d55816a23> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T25fb5a030fcfa28e-M22122e6a1ed8e1c388d08357 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
