I've been worried about x-risk for a very long time. But for some reason AI x-risk has never felt intuitive to me.
On an intellectual level AI risk makes sense to me, but I would like to be able to visualize what a few plausible AI take-over scenarios could concretely look like. I would really appreciate if anyone could share books and movies with realistic AI elements and great storytelling that helped you to connect emotionally to the scariness of AI x-risk.
Alternatively, I would appreciate recommendations for any content, posts, ideas, revelations, experiences, "a-ha" or "0h-shit" moments, etc. - anything that helped you realize how seriously scary AI is and motivated you to work on it.
Thank you for the advice!
What this post and answer shows me… is that we probably need more material? If we want to ‘scare people’ about AI and make more people aware of it as an issue.
We’ve got lots of great (and dense) YouTube and blog content on the technical aspects. We could do with more more “Holy Shit Imagine an AI That Does This!!” type-content.