On the contrary, many of the most notable signatories walked away from large paychecks in order to raise the alarm. I’d suggest looking into the history of individuals like Bengio, Hinton, etc. There are individuals hyping the bubble like Altman and Zuckerberg, but they did NOT sign this, casting further doubt on your claim.
I think this is called the “relative privation” fallacy – it is a false choice. The threat they’re concerned about is human extinction or dystopian lock-in. Even if the probability is low, this is worth discussing.
But to develop superintelligence, probably all you need is some computer science researchers and some fairly ordinary computers. How can you monitor those, verify that parties involved are actually following the rules?
I do not think this statement is accurate. It requires many, very expensive, highly specialized computers that are completely spoken for. Monitoring can be done with hardware geolocation and verification of the user. We are probably 1-2 years away from this already, due to the fact that a) US wants to win the AI race vs China but b) the White House is filled with traitors long NVDA.
A quick google says 15-20%, which makes sense. Maybe the top 10% could comprise 50% of consumer spending, perhaps.
ChatGPT would have been science fiction 5 years ago. We are already living in science fiction times, friend.