"The experts in this field argue in opaque academic terms about whether everyone on earth will die quickly (our view); versus whether humanity will be digitized and kept as pets by AIs that care about us to some tiny but nonzero degree; versus whether there’s a 20 percent chance we die, and an 80 percent chance that superintelligence will be harnessed successfully by a corporation, which will then be able to wield its power as they see fit.… When these are the debates experts are having, you don’t have to be certain which experts are right to understand that the current situation is not okay."