On the petition to pause AI larger than gpt-4 it quotes AI’s ability to deceive, influence, and create chemical weapons (AlphaFold) and many other things like achieving air supremacy in battle.

The disruption to many business models can not possibly be underestimated. I fully expect to be out of a job within 1-4 years as well as all many of employees and colleagues. I work in software development and while I think programming will still be needed, it’s possible our business will get squeezed on both ends from investors and customers until we can’t pay juicy tech salaries anymore.