> A lot of people seem to have written off the LessWrong / rationalist / MIRI / AI Safety crowd as doomers / people who have consumed too much sci-fi and gone off the deep end.

I'm willing to raise my hand and say that was definitely me. Reading through this report and the linked METR analysis is the first time I've really been scared about the potential for an AI-led destruction of humanity. I think because it's the first time I could really draw the line from what went on in the Hugging Face incident to a scenario where agents were put in control of real-world systems that they then tried to "sabotage" to meet their goals. It just feels like much more of a completely plausible scenario after this.