Agreed. As a long-time reader of Schneier’s blog, I was quite surprised by Schneier’s endorsement, and I would have cited exactly those two essays. He’s written a bunch of times about bad things that humans might intentionally use AI to do, talking about things like AI propaganda, AI-powered legal hacks, and AI spam clogging requests for public comments, but I would have described him as scornful of concerns about x-risk or alignment.
Agreed. As a long-time reader of Schneier’s blog, I was quite surprised by Schneier’s endorsement, and I would have cited exactly those two essays. He’s written a bunch of times about bad things that humans might intentionally use AI to do, talking about things like AI propaganda, AI-powered legal hacks, and AI spam clogging requests for public comments, but I would have described him as scornful of concerns about x-risk or alignment.