Just a reminder that risk from AI can occur without recursive self-improvement. Any AGI with a nice model of our world and some goals could potentially be extremely destructive. Even if intelligence has diminishing returns, there is a huge hardware base to be exploited and a huge number of processors working millions of times faster than brains to be harnessed. Maybe intelligence won’t explode in terms of self-improvement, but it can nevertheless explode in terms of pervasiveness and power.
Just a reminder that risk from AI can occur without recursive self-improvement. Any AGI with a nice model of our world and some goals could potentially be extremely destructive. Even if intelligence has diminishing returns, there is a huge hardware base to be exploited and a huge number of processors working millions of times faster than brains to be harnessed. Maybe intelligence won’t explode in terms of self-improvement, but it can nevertheless explode in terms of pervasiveness and power.