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!
For me, the easiest to imagine model of how an AI takeover could look like has been depicted in Black Mirror: Shut Up and Dance (the episodes are fully independent stories). It's probably just meant to show scary things humans can do with current technology, but such schemes could be trivial for a superintelligence with future technology.