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I have a potentially controversial and admittedly sexist opinion on this, and I preface that it's going to rub some the wrong way:

The reason ASI is assumed to be violent or that it's going to end in the destruction of humans is because most of the ASI / AI-risk folks are men. Especially the vocal ones! Specifically, men who assume that violence, conquest, overpowering, superiority are expected, if not entirely valid/reasonable end-goals. Humans do it, and of course, things that we humans create will automatically go there. There's a reason that quite a few of them also dabble in (or overtly tout) racial superiority/intelligence theories. https://jacobin.com/2023/01/effective-altruism-longtermism-nick-bostrom-racism

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636/11599

That isn't to say that there aren't AI-risk women with the same perspective (I've met some), just that the overwhelmingly loud voices in this space and the larger TESCREAL bundle (as Gebru and Torres refer to it) tend to dominate the debate, and they're loud, fear sells, and being on high alert for rivals/other violent men is hard-wired into a lot of people.

Anyway, it's all connected. And pretty gross, tbh.

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