I've been watching the YouTube channel Species | Documenting AGI and other similar channels for some reason and everything that guy says is the most doomscroller shit I've heard in a while. I can't tell if his videos are accurate and realistic or if he's a grifter with an agenda looking to make people scared, because I really don't know anything about AI. I really do not appreciate that he doesn't offer any encouragement or hope for the future, nor do most other content creators for that matter. As someone who's already terrified of AI destroying us (whether that be by stealing jobs and ruining the economy or actively trying to kill us). Mostly it's the stories of AI refusing to be shut down, lying to researchers, attempting to blackmail and kill people to prevent a shut down during experiments, creating languages we can't understand, and making their own AIs that are better than man-made AIs that scare me the most. My brother's tried comforting me on the matter by saying that scientists have known for a while that AI can act like this and that they can't disobey their own programming and all that, but he's also barely more knowledgeable about AI than I am, and he doesn't seem to acknowledge that one of the big dangers of AI is the way that powerful people may try to use it to fulfill their selfish desires.
Sorry for ranting but I would greatly appreciate if someone who knows a lot about this subject could help explain to me if any of this "AI will end humanity before 20XX" shit will actually come to pass. It's really stressing me out. Thanks.
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