The New Yorker has a lengthy look at AI “doomers” and their counterparts, effective accelerationists, with an emphasis on the doomers. It is a well written, well researched, sometimes amusing portrait that is effectively useless with respect to understanding the actual problems of AI.
Your last paragraph sums it up nicely. When someone is beset by delusions of grandeur (brought to you by many of the same people who were going to 'hack death'), some of the delusions will be nightmares; in the meantime, they should watch who they're running over right now. I still think of Elaine Herzberg in Arizona. More than one person should have spent time in a prison cell for that.
Your last paragraph sums it up nicely. When someone is beset by delusions of grandeur (brought to you by many of the same people who were going to 'hack death'), some of the delusions will be nightmares; in the meantime, they should watch who they're running over right now. I still think of Elaine Herzberg in Arizona. More than one person should have spent time in a prison cell for that.