We think we’re so smart. But we’re not.

Matthew Butterick on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), via @ayjay:

Because here’s the thing: to me one of the greatest risks posed by AI is rooted in our failure of imag­i­na­tion: our failure to broadly imagine the possible forms AI (including AGI) could take; our failure to broadly imagine the possible conse­quences it could wreak.