The Fear of AI is the Fear of Looking in the Mirror: Low Trait Honesty-Humility Predicts Individual Perceived Likelihood of Future Apocalyptic AI Scenarios Through Beliefs in a Competitive World
Apocalyptic narratives about Artificial Intelligence (AI), in which a future superintelligence dominates or annihilates humanity, have become a prominent source of public anxiety and a central concern in the AI alignment discourse. Because the behavior of a hypothetical superintelligent AI is fundamentally unknowable,...