Another point in favour of your position is that there are a lot of people like me, who think that extinction risk is massively overblown, but are seriously concerned about smaller-scale harms from AI. I would say this is a majority view among the people I know in real life, and is the dominant view on left-wing social media networks such as bluesky.
I will not join a movement that is solely focussed on human extinction risk, because I think the arguments for it are wrong, and I believe such a movement would backfire anyway by helping AI companies with their marketing hype. I would join a movement that cares about the negative effects of AI that are plainly visible right now.
Another point in favour of your position is that there are a lot of people like me, who think that extinction risk is massively overblown, but are seriously concerned about smaller-scale harms from AI. I would say this is a majority view among the people I know in real life, and is the dominant view on left-wing social media networks such as bluesky.
I will not join a movement that is solely focussed on human extinction risk, because I think the arguments for it are wrong, and I believe such a movement would backfire anyway by helping AI companies with their marketing hype. I would join a movement that cares about the negative effects of AI that are plainly visible right now.
What current negative effects are you worried about? What measures do you want taken against them?
A very good point!