We Shouldn't Fear Artificial General Intelligence more than Human General Intelligence

The OpenAI board missed the point. And in doing so, made the point...humans are terrifying!

The Frontier Psychiatrists is a daily newsletter. Mostly—this is Health themed. I'm guessing the end of humanity and a threat to all existence from giant space robots or malicious artificial intelligence counts as a threat to the health of humans so I can write about it in good faith!

There was a breaking story about the potential reason that Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI. I will use the story to make a point because it's convenient for the point I want to make.

Effective altruists are a great example of everything wrong with human intelligence. It's worth noting that the intelligence assessing whether artificial intelligence is a grave threat is, at least at this point, made up of human intelligence.

I hate to tell you that human intelligence… is flawed and very dangerous.

It would be really hard to argue that the board of AI stuck the landing on the firing of Sam Altman. “Effective altruist” may be some of the most self-aggrandizing and misleading brandings I've seen. Effect…