Most normal people would not take a 5% risk of destroying the world in order to greatly improve their lives and the lives of their children.
Polls suggest that most normal people expect AGI to be bad for them and they don’t want it. I’m more speculating here, but I think the typical expectation is something like “AGI will put me out of a job; billionaires will get even richer and I’ll get nothing.”
Polls suggest that most normal people expect AGI to be bad for them and they don’t want it. I’m more speculating here, but I think the typical expectation is something like “AGI will put me out of a job; billionaires will get even richer and I’ll get nothing.”