I've been worried about x-risk for a very long time. But for some reason AI x-risk has never felt intuitive to me.
On an intellectual level AI risk makes sense to me, but I would like to be able to visualize what a few plausible AI take-over scenarios could concretely look like. I would really appreciate if anyone could share books and movies with realistic AI elements and great storytelling that helped you to connect emotionally to the scariness of AI x-risk.
Alternatively, I would appreciate recommendations for any content, posts, ideas, revelations, experiences, "a-ha" or "0h-shit" moments, etc. - anything that helped you realize how seriously scary AI is and motivated you to work on it.
Thank you for the advice!
Besides the typical (over-dramatised) killer robot scenarios, I would add the perspective of looking for infrastructure breakdowns or societal chaos. Imagine a book like Blackout with a disruptive, national blackout but that was caused by powerful intelligent (control) systems.
Or a movie like Don't Look Up where AI is used to or actively spreads misinformation that severely impact public opinion and taking effective action.
In movies and books it might commonly be portrayed (in part) as human failure; but it could have been the result of correlated automation failure or goal mis-specification or a power-seeking AI system.
The consequences that individual humans and society at large suffer from critical infrastructure breaking down can be quite realistic and visceral.