I kind of feel like it’s the opposite, people actually do anchor their imagination about the future on science fiction & this is part of the problem here. Lots of science fiction features a world with a bunch of human-level AIs walking around but where humans are still in comfortably in charge and non-obsolete, even though it’s hard to argue for why this would actually happen.
Yes, that’s also true: There is always a lonely hero who in the end puts the AGI back into the box or destroys it. Nothing would be more boring than writing a novel about how in reality the AGI just kills everyone and wins. :( I think both is possible—that people imagine the wrong future and at the same time don’t take it seriously.
I kind of feel like it’s the opposite, people actually do anchor their imagination about the future on science fiction & this is part of the problem here. Lots of science fiction features a world with a bunch of human-level AIs walking around but where humans are still in comfortably in charge and non-obsolete, even though it’s hard to argue for why this would actually happen.
Yes, that’s also true: There is always a lonely hero who in the end puts the AGI back into the box or destroys it. Nothing would be more boring than writing a novel about how in reality the AGI just kills everyone and wins. :( I think both is possible—that people imagine the wrong future and at the same time don’t take it seriously.