Most of the stuff on U-Toob is bullshitt as far as I am concerned. And there is enough hysterical fear being pushed by MSM that it drowns out rational conversation. And what's on TV? I don't think you need to ask me what I think about TV. I've expressed that love before on occasion.
Anyhow, here is some intelligent conversation from one source:
VOX
Last week, a lead researcher at Anthropic declared that there was a greater than 10 percent chance of AI “killing all humans” within the next decade. This nerve-racking forecast, combined with recent AI-initiated cyberattacks, have fueled calls for slowing the progress of artificial intelligence — a proposal that Anthropic and OpenAI subsequently embraced.
Not all prophets of AI doom agree about precisely how this apocalypse would come about. Many focus on scenarios reminiscent of The Terminator films, in which superintelligent machines conspire to exterminate humanity — perhaps in the same not-quite-intentional way that humans laid waste to the dodo, or passenger pigeon.
But there is another, arguably more intuitive way that AI could bring about mass death, if not human extinction: by making it easier for people to develop and deploy catastrophic bioweapons. These scenarios are far less plausible than they sound, however. Producing a dangerous pathogen requires physical laboratory work that no level of software automation currently replaces: trained humans operating specialised equipment, handling materials by hand. An AI model, however capable at reasoning or hacking, cannot pipette a sample.
Erosion of thinking
None of that makes AI harmless. It just relocates where the real danger sits, and it isn’t extinction. Researchers sometimes call the more concrete risk “enfeeblement”, the gradual erosion of our own critical thinking as we outsource more of it to machines. We’re teaching ourselves that there’s a shortcut to reasoning and judgement, and shortcuts, taken often enough, become the only way we know how to think.
If the US and China can’t agree on AI regulation, it’s unlikely any AI regulation at all will come. A decade of dire warnings have failed to slow the pace of the AI industry. As today’s freak-out cools, the political response seems to be moving the same way. Trump is calling AI doomsday warnings “a HOAX”. Should a safety bill arrive on his desk, it seems unlikely he would sign it.