Let me make the contrarian point here that you don’t have to build AGI to get these benefits eventually. An alternative, much safer approach would be to stop AGI entirely and try to inflate human/biological intelligence with drugs or other biotech. Stopping AGI is unlikely to happen and this biological route would take a lot longer but it’s worth bringing up in any argument about the risks vs. reward of AI.
Let me make the contrarian point here that you don’t have to build AGI to get these benefits eventually. An alternative, much safer approach would be to stop AGI entirely and try to inflate human/biological intelligence with drugs or other biotech. Stopping AGI is unlikely to happen and this biological route would take a lot longer but it’s worth bringing up in any argument about the risks vs. reward of AI.
I fully agree, see this post.