Comparing AI to our other technologies to assess risk is flawed. AI will create technologies that we cannot; so we should not compare them to those we could.

Interesting take. 

(1) Would it not also have been applicable to computing generally? Or the internet? Or steam?
(2) If we cannot compare the future to the past, to what should we compare it?

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I hear this. It leapfrogs the “will create with us” phase, but i see the future you intimate where it will create without us. 

Perhaps an analogy to technology is inapt then. Perhaps this is why we see more and more an analogy to parenting?

No. AI will literally create technologies. It’s intelligence. We cannot compare it. Probably the best effort would be to a hypothetical more-intelligent species, but AI doesn’t have the limitations.

1 goes to the printing press, ergo knowledge cannot be discovered as it risks doom
2 we should compare it to an NP problem where we can start to understand probabilistically but are limited from certain safety or success. the more recursive (e.g. virtuous loop), the more optimistic.