I agree, however, isn’t there still the danger that as scientific research is augmented by AI, nanotechnology will become more practical? The steelmanned case for nanotech x-risk would probably argue that various things that are intractable for us to do now, have no theoretical reasons why they couldn’t be done if we were slightly better at other adjacent techniques.
Nanotech progress has been a good deal slower than was expected by people who were scared of it.
I agree, however, isn’t there still the danger that as scientific research is augmented by AI, nanotechnology will become more practical? The steelmanned case for nanotech x-risk would probably argue that various things that are intractable for us to do now, have no theoretical reasons why they couldn’t be done if we were slightly better at other adjacent techniques.