The "statement on AI risk" signed by a bunch of big names is literally one sentence: "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."

They might as well have said hot dogs are sandwiches. Wholly useless.

@maxkennerly It's so pathetic. Like "ooohhh I'm like Niels Bohr or Einstein writing a letter to Roosevelt." No you're not. You make plagiarism machines.