alt Hacker NewsThe anthropic principle applies here: anyone warning about an existential risk will by necessity never have precedent to point to.
I am not assuming humans don't remain in control, but rather, I am not axiomatically assuming there's any inherent reason we will.
> The anthropic principle applies here: anyone warning about an existential risk will by necessity never have precedent to point to.
We have precedents of people warning about existential risks in the past, when the warnings turned out to be false, or overblown. In some cases, such overblown warnings led to serious negatives for society (demonization of nuclear power).