Who am I even supposed to trust when it comes to the future of AI?
I am a PhD student (not in AI) and am usually alright when it comes to studying a topic I don't know much about. But it seems that because AI is so highly discussed nowadays, it's impossible to get a good gauge of what the rational scholarly consensus is regarding its and our future. I am constantly bombarded with people saying that at best most jobs are replaced and the future is a dystopia, and at worst AGI/ASI is achieved and we all are killed by a bioweapon or something. It honestly has me terrified, especially when I see a lot of figures in the AI sphere, including academics, seem to think that there are reasonably high "p(doom)"'s (what a horrifying concept that is). How am I supposed to parse all of this? Are there any actually level-headed people? Or are the people shouting about d...









