> I have yet to meet a serious AI researcher who worries about AI ending the human race.
As an industry practitioner of machine learning / data science, I believe AGI poses a genuine risk to humanity.
Having said that, what I do for a living is of little relevance. People are pretty terrible at predicting the future (see late 19th / early 20th century predictions of year 2000, with food replaced by pills, etc). Unless someone has put enough thought and research into it, their predictions about the future of civilization are likely to be worthless regardless of their academic credentials.
As an industry practitioner of machine learning / data science, I believe AGI poses a genuine risk to humanity.
Having said that, what I do for a living is of little relevance. People are pretty terrible at predicting the future (see late 19th / early 20th century predictions of year 2000, with food replaced by pills, etc). Unless someone has put enough thought and research into it, their predictions about the future of civilization are likely to be worthless regardless of their academic credentials.