The Financial Times — hardly a hotbed of wild-eyed radicalism — publishes this solid essay on the risks of AGI.

When I got home, I thought about my four-year-old who would wake up in a few hours. As I considered the world he might grow up in, I gradually shifted from shock to anger. It felt deeply wrong that consequential decisions potentially affecting every life on Earth could be made by a small group of private companies without democratic oversight. Did the people racing to build the first real AGI have a plan to slow down and let the rest of the world have a say in what they were doing? And when I say they, I really mean we, because I am part of this community.

https://www.ft.com/content/03895dc4-a3b7-481e-95cc-336a524f2ac2