Also, one other heuristic/proposition that, as far as I’m aware, is simply factually incorrect (rather than “flawed but in debatable ways” or “actually pretty sound”) is “AI researchers didn’t come up with this concern, Hollywood did. Science fiction is constructed based on entertaining premises, not realistic capabilities of technologies.” So there it may also be worth pointing out in some manner that, in reality, quite early on prominent AI researchers raised concerns somewhat similar to those discussed now.
Whether [an intelligence explosion] will lead to a Utopia or to the extermination of the human race will depend on how the problem is handled by the machines. The important thing will be to give them the aim of serving human beings.
Also, one other heuristic/proposition that, as far as I’m aware, is simply factually incorrect (rather than “flawed but in debatable ways” or “actually pretty sound”) is “AI researchers didn’t come up with this concern, Hollywood did. Science fiction is constructed based on entertaining premises, not realistic capabilities of technologies.” So there it may also be worth pointing out in some manner that, in reality, quite early on prominent AI researchers raised concerns somewhat similar to those discussed now.
E.g., I. J. Good apparently wrote in 1959: