The AI apocolypse is going to be:
- an internet consumed by bots and AI slop (such as a Facebook where it's all AI bots chatting with each other while we watch)
- an economy in ruins because all the bosses want to hire AIs, not people
- social and environmental destruction from AI and big data companies influencing our government (the real deep state)
- epidemic AI psychoses in a society dumbed down by always-available, not-always-correct advice
- and more

If AI "escapes the box" it's because some human designed it to be so. Humans will do this, just like they maliciously deploy viruses on the internet.

Some viruses are made just cause destruction, not even to tangibly financially benefit their makers.

If AI actually kills people, it's because someone put in a box with access to guns or more, like killer robots.

.... and, of course, there are pros for all of these cons. And remedies we can apply.

I did not take the article to be dismissing those concerns. I took it to be dismissing the idea that there is a "self" inside a chatbot that has some sort of will-to-power that is malevolent and can be beyond control. A ghost, or a demon if you will, inside the machine. If you understand what actually is inside a chatbot and how it works, that extreme anthropomorphism and panicky reaction can be dispelled.

I do not share your optimism.

The article doesn't dismiss my concerns. It ignores them to make its meager point.

.... on a specific point. A peak under the hood.

And I do, my self, tend to be optimistic, hopefully in a realist way. We shall see....

she seems to conflate Large Language Models with all of AI research. She then "takes down" LLMs, and by association AI proper, by saying they will never be anything but stochastic parrots. It only takes a cursory search to learn that there is more going on in AI research than LLMs and chatbots.

Sorry, but I'll take the opinions of non-anonymous experts with transparent credentials over some rando.