"He attributes the incidents to poor human oversight and system design, and says they’re “totally preventable" - I know people respect him, but this sounds like someone paid to say this. Aren't most extinction risks preventable with better human oversight and system design? I mean we can have an asteroid hit us, but outside of this, isn't the point of talking about a problem that we can prevent it, and failing to leads to that? What is he saying that I'm missing?
You should be aware there's a larger context here, with people (including at anthropic/openAI) anthropomorphizing AI systems, implying they act on their own, completely independent of human interaction or oversight.
He just says that the danger is not intrinsic to the technology but it remains on human error.
> extinction risks
If you fear that, blame it on the humans.