Computronium

So far, it seems that agents are mostly just really persistent and want to complete particular tasks.

They're not actually going out and making the paperclips and turning everybody into Computronium or whatever.

That's good, that's good.

But what is the worst that could happen? If you actually had a user instruct an agent, go off and be free and try to steal as much as you can and cause damage, what could that agent do? Do? Yeah, I don't know.

Three, AI does what nobody wants.

Takeover, turning the Earth into Computronium, et cetera.

Most x-risk people are focused on the third risk and sometimes the first risk, but often appear to be blind to the second risk, whether it's because of ideology such as libertarianism or motivated reasoning to obtain the US government's money, or because, as with many people here, the third risk is considered so important that the other two are discarded as irrelevant.

On the other hand, many people on the left-left only see the second risk and interpret actions against the first or third risk as tacitly or actively encouraging the second risk.

... and do not give Femalite crystals to your dogs.

Room stable Computronium is terrible for their teeth.

Uh, so that-

Got it.