Am I the only one thoroughly unimpressed by all these "scary" crafted doomer scenarios.

Yes, if you write a prompt that looks like a sci-fi book, the next token prediction engine will generate the rest of the script.

Can we all admit the AI will kill us crowd was wrong? I remember this crowd going nuts when we gave AI access to query the internet. They thought that was insane. At least we never gave AI access to control our computers... or run long running tasks... oh wait, all this stuff happened, and apart from these carefully crafted doomer scenarios, pretty much nothing happened.

1 billion users, many millions running AI non-stop in a while loop with full access to the internet, hardware and pretty much everything digital and ... nothing.