They really do think AI might kill everyone

> Many people found it hard to believe that AI researchers think this way. Some explained it as a PR campaign to promote AI regulation, or as self-promotion, or as a way to boost AI company stock prices. Others felt it had to be impossible, because if you really believed this you’d be bombing datacenters instead of posting on Twitter. > > In fact, not only do many AI researchers1 seriously believe this, they’ve been thinking and writing about it since the mid-2000s. Eliezer Yudkowsky — the ur-figure for most modern AI safety culture — has been publishing papers since at least 2008 saying that superintelligent AI could destroy all human life. It’s been such a common idea that the AI research community has abbreviated “how likely you think AI is to kill everyone” to “p(doom)” (i.e. the probability2 of doomsday) since around 2010.