With AI, you can’t not care about ASI or extinction or catastrophe or dictatorship or any of the words thrown around, as they directly affect your life too.
I think it is important to distinguish between caring in the sense of “it hugely affects your life” and caring in the sense of, for example, “having opinions on it, voicing them, or even taking costlier actions”. Presumably, if something affects you hugely, you should care about it in the second sense, but that doesn’t mean people do. My uninformed intuition is that this would apply to most employees of AI companies.
I think it is important to distinguish between caring in the sense of “it hugely affects your life” and caring in the sense of, for example, “having opinions on it, voicing them, or even taking costlier actions”. Presumably, if something affects you hugely, you should care about it in the second sense, but that doesn’t mean people do. My uninformed intuition is that this would apply to most employees of AI companies.