I don’t know which premise here is more greatly at odds with the real beliefs of AI researchers—that they didn’t worry about AI safety because they didn’t think that AGI would be built, or that there has ever been a time when they thought it would take >200 years to do it.
I don’t know which premise here is more greatly at odds with the real beliefs of AI researchers—that they didn’t worry about AI safety because they didn’t think that AGI would be built, or that there has ever been a time when they thought it would take >200 years to do it.