Honestly, this article has too many words which don't mean anything.

'AI Experts', 'superintelligence', and hand-waving doom scenarios.

As an example-

> Within a couple of years, possibly much sooner, AI may achieve so-called closed-loop recursive self-improvement (RSI): the capacity to rewrite its own code to become more capable, without human intervention. Should that happen, the result could be an intelligence explosion of a kind for which there is no precedent and no map.

I've heard these same objections in my lifetime about the internet. And I've read similar arguments against TV, radio, the phonograph, and the printing press.

Honestly, this is getting extremely tiring. Every new invention that has happened has affected the world in both good and bad ways.

Ultimately, what counts is what we do with it.

> Ultimately, what counts is what we do with it.

Looking at the people in charge of these companies, and the sheer lack of understanding by the broad consumer market using them, I have nothing but pessimism about the direction that this technology takes us.