AGI [artificial general intelligence] will not emerge from a government-funded program — it will emerge from one of the tech giants currently funding this multibillion-dollar research. So then you’ll be living in a world that you didn’t agree to, didn’t vote for, that you are co-inhabiting with a super-intelligent alien species that answers to the goals and rules of a corporation — an entity which has access to the comms, beliefs, everything you ever said, and the whereabouts of every person in the country via your personal data. Surveillance capitalism can toggle pretty quickly into digital totalitarianism. At best, these tech giants will become the self-appointed arbiters of human good, which is the fox guarding the henhouse — they would never, ever think of using that power against us and strip-mining us for our last drop of cash. That’s a scarier scenario than what I presented in The Terminator 40…