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It's also just a cherry picked example too. Surveys of experts show there isn't really a consensus, but they generally aren't that optimistic.

https://nickbostrom.com/papers/survey.pdf

>We thus designed a brief questionaire and distributed it to four groups of experts in 2012/2013. The median estimate of respondents was for a one in two chance that high-level machine intelligence will be developed around 2040-2050, rising to a nine in ten chance by 2075. Experts expect that systems will move on to superintelligence in less than 30 years thereafter. They estimate the chance is about one in three that this development turns out to be ‘bad’ or ‘extremely bad’ for humanity.




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