Nitpick: The title the authors picked (“Current and Near-Term AI as a Potential Existential Risk Factor”) seems to better represent the content of the article than the title you picked for this LW post (“The Existential Risks of Current and Near-Term AI”).
Reading the title I was expecting an argument that extinction could come extremely soon (eg by chaining GPT-4 instances together in some novel and clever way). The authors of the article talk about something very different imo.
Nitpick: The title the authors picked (“Current and Near-Term AI as a Potential Existential Risk Factor”) seems to better represent the content of the article than the title you picked for this LW post (“The Existential Risks of Current and Near-Term AI”).
Reading the title I was expecting an argument that extinction could come extremely soon (eg by chaining GPT-4 instances together in some novel and clever way). The authors of the article talk about something very different imo.
Thanks for the suggestion! I updated the title to match the original wording.