You raise some fair points, but some others I would disagree with. I would say that just because there isn’t a popular argument that AGI risk affects underpriviliged people the most, doesn’t make it not true. I can’t think of a transformative technology in human history that didn’t impact people more the lower down the social strata you go, and AI thus far has not only followed this trend but greatly exaccerbated it. Current AI harms are overwhelmingly targetted towards these groups. I can’t think of any reason why much more powerful AI such as AGI would for whatever reason buck this trend. Obviously if we only focused on existential risk this may not be the case, but even a marginally misaligned AGI would exaggerate current AI harms, particularly in suffering ethics cases.
People are concerned about AGI because it could lead to human extinction or civilizational collapse. That really seems like it affects everyone. It’s more analogous to nuclear war. If there was a full scale global nuclear war, being privileged would not help you very much.
Besides, if you’re going to make the point that AI is just like every other issue in affecting the most vulnerable, then you haven’t explained why people don’t care about AI risk. That is, you haven’t identified something unique about AI. You could apply the same argument to climate change, to pandemic risk, to inequality. All of these issues disproportionately affect the poor, yet all of them occupy substantially more public discussion than AI. What makes AI different?
You raise some fair points, but some others I would disagree with. I would say that just because there isn’t a popular argument that AGI risk affects underpriviliged people the most, doesn’t make it not true. I can’t think of a transformative technology in human history that didn’t impact people more the lower down the social strata you go, and AI thus far has not only followed this trend but greatly exaccerbated it. Current AI harms are overwhelmingly targetted towards these groups. I can’t think of any reason why much more powerful AI such as AGI would for whatever reason buck this trend. Obviously if we only focused on existential risk this may not be the case, but even a marginally misaligned AGI would exaggerate current AI harms, particularly in suffering ethics cases.
People are concerned about AGI because it could lead to human extinction or civilizational collapse. That really seems like it affects everyone. It’s more analogous to nuclear war. If there was a full scale global nuclear war, being privileged would not help you very much.
Besides, if you’re going to make the point that AI is just like every other issue in affecting the most vulnerable, then you haven’t explained why people don’t care about AI risk. That is, you haven’t identified something unique about AI. You could apply the same argument to climate change, to pandemic risk, to inequality. All of these issues disproportionately affect the poor, yet all of them occupy substantially more public discussion than AI. What makes AI different?