A Response to Steven Pinker on AI

Steven Pinker wrote an article on AI for Popular Science Magazine, which I have some issues with. The article: https://www.popsci.com/robot-uprising-enlightenment-now Related: "The Orthogonality Thesis, Intelligence, and Stupidity" (https://youtu.be/hEUO6pjwFOo) "AI? Just Sandbox it... - Computerphile" (https://youtu.be/i8r_yShOixM) "Experts' Predictions about the Future of AI" (https://youtu.be/HOJ1NVtlnyQ) "Why Would AI Want to do Bad Things? Instrumental Convergence" (https://youtu.be/ZeecOKBus3Q) With thanks to my excellent Patreon supporters: https://www.patreon.com/robertskmiles Jason Hise Jordan Medina Scott Worley JJ Hepboin Pedro A Ortega Said Polat Chris Canal Nicholas Kees Dupuis James Richárd Nagyfi Phil Moyer Shevis Johnson Alec Johnson Lupuleasa Ionuț Clemens Arbesser Bryce Daifuku Allen Faure Simon Strandgaard Jonatan R Michael Greve The Guru Of Vision Julius Brash Tom O'Connor Erik de Bruijn Robin Green Laura Olds Jon Halliday Paul Hobbs Jeroen De Dauw Tim Neilson Eric Scammell Igor Keller Ben Glanton Robert Sokolowski anul kumar sinha Jérôme Frossard Sean Gibat Volotat andrew Russell Cooper Lawton Gladamas Sylvain Chevalier DGJono robertvanduursen Dmitri Afanasjev Brian Sandberg Marcel Ward Andrew Weir Ben Archer Scott McCarthy Kabs Tendayi Mawushe Jannik Olbrich Anne Kohlbrenner Jussi Männistö Mr Fantastic Wr4thon Archy de Berker Marc Pauly Joshua Pratt Andy Kobre Brian Gillespie Martin Wind Peggy Youell Poker Chen Kees Darko Sperac Truls Paul Moffat Anders Öhrt Marco Tiraboschi Michael Kuhinica Fraser Cain Robin Scharf Oren Milman John Rees Seth Brothwell Brian Goodrich Clark Mitchell Kasper Schnack Michael Hunter Klemen Slavic Patrick Henderson Long Nguyen Oct todo22 Melisa Kostrzewski Hendrik Daniel Munter Graham Henry Duncan Orr Andrew Walker Bryan Egan https://www.patreon.com/robertskmiles