It can be worthwile to figure out specifically how something that goes wrong, actually does go wrong. In the interest of helping with that, I’ll try to add something to all the other criticisms that people have already made here.
The author actually makes a lot of mostly plausible arguments; they’re not all accurate or useful (in particular, a lot seem to be in the form of “here’s a reason why AI might not be a risk, with no thought going into how likely it is,” which is only marginally helpful), but they’re understandable, at least. What’s especially concerning, though, is that they also invoke the absurdity heuristic, and actually seem to think it’s the most important part of their argument. They spend more time on “this idea is silly and is connected to other ideas that are silly” than any one of those other “plausible” arguments, which is really bad practice. To some extent this is understandable, because it was a talk and therefore supposed to be somewhat entertaining, and pointing and laughing at weird ideas is certainly entertaining, but they went too far, I think.
It can be worthwile to figure out specifically how something that goes wrong, actually does go wrong. In the interest of helping with that, I’ll try to add something to all the other criticisms that people have already made here.
The author actually makes a lot of mostly plausible arguments; they’re not all accurate or useful (in particular, a lot seem to be in the form of “here’s a reason why AI might not be a risk, with no thought going into how likely it is,” which is only marginally helpful), but they’re understandable, at least. What’s especially concerning, though, is that they also invoke the absurdity heuristic, and actually seem to think it’s the most important part of their argument. They spend more time on “this idea is silly and is connected to other ideas that are silly” than any one of those other “plausible” arguments, which is really bad practice. To some extent this is understandable, because it was a talk and therefore supposed to be somewhat entertaining, and pointing and laughing at weird ideas is certainly entertaining, but they went too far, I think.