About the Legion of Thought

After playing with AI and seeing what various tools have to offer, it began to seem more and more obvious that AI would have a serious impact on the workforce. At the time, it wasn’t actually a worry — it was more just something that was interesting, and exciting for the future. The assumption was that governments would take care of people with universal basic income and other welfare for those who lost their jobs.

When expressing the sentiment of AIs replacing human labour, I was labelled as a “doomer”, which I thought was odd. I hadn’t even heard the word. But when I started looking into the arguments for the more serious risks of AI, including human extinction, they were very convincing.

My natural response was to look for the counter-arguments to show that AI risk is nothing to worry about. But time and time again, the AI risk denialists offer arguments that don’t stand up to scrutiny. As I see more and more of these arguments crumble, I become more convinced that we face a very serious risk with AI.

The purpose of my content is to explore both sides of this argument, and share my findings in a clear manner, cutting through the falsehoods and fallacies to help people to see the truth, whatever that may be.

And example of the misleading arguments we come across is something like “But AI is not conscious, so it could not hate us and want to harm us”. True, but misleading. “Consciousness” is not a prerequisite for AI risk. See “Should we stop using anthropomorphic language for AI?“