AI as an existential threat is something:
A: I'm pretty worried about
B: Im not that worried about but some ppl in my social circles are pretty worried about
C: Nobody in my circles is really that worried about it
D: Haven't heard of anyone at all who's worried
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I'm not worried about it because I think we're either totally fucked and there's nothing we can do about it, or it's not a problem at all, and the chances that we're in that sweet spot in the middle where me worrying about it will accomplish anything is vanishingly small.
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The worries of AI are totally mundane. How do we use it to make healthcare better? To improve traffic? To prevent crime without creating a surveillance state?
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All of this superintelligence talk without seeming to care about the workaday issues in legacy industries suggests that the AI ethics crowd just wants to write science fiction and not solve real, boring issues.
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"A little worried about", more than asteroid strike, less than the chances of global thermonuclear war.
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The reason most people aren't worried about it is because everyone seems yo be caricaturing the problem. They assume that the dangers of AI will be manifested the same way we saw in countless sci-fi movies (robots trying to eradicate humanity).
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Humans are a bad judge of intention. Wolves gaslit us into being best buddies, and cats still only deign to be our friends. The Turing Test was designed for humans to fail