No argument about AGI risk that I’ve seen argues that it affects the underprivileged most. In fact, arguments emphasize how every single one of us is vulnerable to AI and that AI takeover would be a catastrophe for all of humanity. There is no story in which misaligned AI only hurts poor/​vulnerable people.
You’re misunderstanding something about why many people are not concerned with AGI risks despite being sympathetic to various aspects of AI ethics. No one concerned with AGI x-risk is arguing it will disproportionately harm the underprivileged. But current AI harms are from things like discriminatory criminal sentencing algorithms, so a lot of the AI ethics discourse involves fairness and privilege, and people concerned with those issues don’t fully appreciate that misaligned AGI 1) hurts everyone, and 2) is a real thing that very well might happen within 20 years, not just some imaginary sci-fi story made up by overprivileged white nerds.
There is some discourse around technological unemployment putting low-skilled employees out of work, but this is a niche political argument that I’ve mostly heard of proponents of UBI. I think it’s less critical than x-risk, and if artificial intelligence gains the ability to do diverse tasks as well as humans can, I’ll be just as unemployed a computer programmer as anyone else is as a coal miner.
You’re misunderstanding something about why many people are not concerned with AGI risks despite being sympathetic to various aspects of AI ethics. No one concerned with AGI x-risk is arguing it will disproportionately harm the underprivileged. But current AI harms are from things like discriminatory criminal sentencing algorithms, so a lot of the AI ethics discourse involves fairness and privilege, and people concerned with those issues don’t fully appreciate that misaligned AGI 1) hurts everyone, and 2) is a real thing that very well might happen within 20 years, not just some imaginary sci-fi story made up by overprivileged white nerds.
There is some discourse around technological unemployment putting low-skilled employees out of work, but this is a niche political argument that I’ve mostly heard of proponents of UBI. I think it’s less critical than x-risk, and if artificial intelligence gains the ability to do diverse tasks as well as humans can, I’ll be just as unemployed a computer programmer as anyone else is as a coal miner.
This is the opposite of the point made in the parent comment, and I agree with it.