Louis Rosenberg at Big Think:
From knowledge and expertise to planning, reasoning, creativity, and problem-solving, we could soon find ourselves thoroughly outmatched. This is a genuine possibility in the very near future, and nobody I know is honestly confronting the profound (and potentially demoralizing) impact it could have on our identity as humans.
I apply this criticism to myself as well. I have been writing about the dangers of superintelligence for well over a decade, and I, too, have focused on specific tactical risks such as the AI manipulation problem and the arrival mind paradox. At the same time, I have failed to honestly confront what life will really feel like when we humans collectively realize we have lost cognitive supremacy on planet Earth and will likely never get it back.
No, that last statement is not personal enough.
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