If journalism demands that you stick to Hollywood references when communicating a concept, it wouldn’t be so bad if journalists managed to understand and convey the distinction between:
The wholly implausible, worse than useless Terminator humanoid hunter-killer robot scenario.
The not completely far-fetched Skynet launches every nuke, humanity dies scenario.
I think it works as a hierarchy of increasingly complex models. Readers will stop at whichever rung they are comfortable with depending on their curiosity and background.
My real life conversations on X-risk tend to go Terminator Drones Skynet Specialized AI General AI Friendly AI
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Agreed.
If journalism demands that you stick to Hollywood references when communicating a concept,
it wouldn’t be so bad if journalists managed to understand and convey the distinction between:
The wholly implausible, worse than useless Terminator humanoid hunter-killer robot scenario.
The not completely far-fetched Skynet launches every nuke, humanity dies scenario.
I think it works as a hierarchy of increasingly complex models. Readers will stop at whichever rung they are comfortable with depending on their curiosity and background.
My real life conversations on X-risk tend to go
Terminator
Drones
Skynet
Specialized AI
General AI
Friendly AI