Climate Change Is the Larger Near-Term Existential Risk

Worrying is a triage problem, and current science suggests climate change is the larger near-term existential risk, deserving maximum attention now, whereas general AI is at an unknown future point; this does not mean AI researchers should neglect safety, but the relative urgency favors climate, and reassuringly the very scientists building AI, like those who built nuclear weapons, are among the first to insist on keeping the dangers in check.