If you’re wondering how qualified this guy is to be making such outrageous claims about AI, his background is that he’s a... journalist

I assume this is a strategy (the man is a marketing/pr strategist) borrowed from certain climate change advocacy groups which is basically to take up the most extreme possible position and hope to “shift the Overtone Window”.

Personally I think it’s a. Immoral b. Dangerous and c. Self defeating.

Immoral because deceiving is actually quite bad regardless of your justification.

Dangerous because you will attract true-believers who are neurotic, mentally ill or misguided and really believe what you’re saying as a strategic thing. You will create a movement that you don’t control and is just wrong about the world.

Self-defeating partly for the above reasons but mostly because you may discredit your position with the people who understand “just enough” and those people run many major companies, countries etc.

I mean its not a novel viewpoint.

But I don't understand what he hopes to achieve. I mean its just going to mean that the development they fear so much being done elsewhere.

Also I wonder what they think AI is going to do to us?

Its unlikley that AI is going to kill us, it'll be the civil unrest caused by unemployment.

It turns out anyone can create a non-profit called the "Center for AI Safety" and then post wild things on twitter.

Is this news?

Ah, so his recommended course of action is to "destroy a pipeline", and he will advocate for doing this and probably write a book called "how to destroy a pipeline" and he will absolutely not destroy a pipeline.

I've seen this before haven't I.