Is There a Social Pressure to Worry About Risks From AI?

There's definitely a lot more main stream agreement now about the potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence than there was ten years ago. Prestigesad professionals in the field of machine learning and and politicians and other public intellectuals take this seriously as a risk, when that would have been unthinkable 10 years ago. There are still plenty of smart and and thoughtful people who think worrying about risk from a es is a pretty silly thing to worry about.