Many eminent AI scientists fear (various kinds of) AI risk

AI risk is not a niche fear; it’s fairly widespread among serious practitioners.

• See e.g. signatories of the Slow down AI FHI letter.
• Yoshua Bengio (2023-04-05) calls the acceleration “unexpected”: “It is because there is an unexpected acceleration –I probably would not have signed such a letter a year ago– that we need to take a step back, and that my opinion on these topics has changed.”
• April 2023; Hinton quits Google so that he can speak openly about the risks
• Paul Christiano calls: “I think superintelligent AI is the single most likely reason that I will personally die.”
• Douglas Hofstadter says: “I think it’s terrifying. I hate it. I think about it practically all the time, every single day. Q: Wow. And it overwhelms me and depresses me in a way that I haven’t been depressed for a very long time.”