We clearly don’t focus enough on near-term existential risks that we already know about:
Nuclear war
Global warming
Asteroid impact
Supervolcano eruption
Compared to these (which already exist right now and are relatively well-understood), worrying about grey goo and unfriendly AIs does seem a bit beside the point.
We clearly don’t focus enough on near-term existential risks that we already know about:
Nuclear war
Global warming
Asteroid impact
Supervolcano eruption
Compared to these (which already exist right now and are relatively well-understood), worrying about grey goo and unfriendly AIs does seem a bit beside the point.