“The history of technology to date suggests that the greatest risks come not from technology itself, but from the people who control the technology using it to accumulate power and wealth. The AI industry leaders who have signed this statement are precisely the people best positioned to do just that.”
The extinction statement puts AI next to pandemics and nuclear war, and the people signing it run the AI labs. They ask for regulation of a rogue AI that does not exist yet. Their proposed fixes cement their own power. The arsonists want the fire department contract too.