Created 26 September, 2023. Last updated 26 September, 2023.

Many people are concerned about AI for reasons other than existential risk. Here we list some of these other concerns.¹⁾

• Harder to know what is real.²⁾
• Deepfakes.³⁾
• Widespread manipulation & scams.⁴⁾
• Personalized phishing attacks.⁵⁾
• Misleading voters, or undermining democracy in other ways.⁶⁾

• AI systems exhibit biases, including for attributes which are legally protected against discrimination.⁷⁾
• Unfair decisions in the justice system,⁸⁾ hiring,⁹⁾ etc.
• Feedback loop which increases bias over time or encourages the bias to persist: the system is trained on biased data, then applied, which results in more disparate impact, so future systems trained on the resulting data are more biases.¹⁰⁾

• Mass unemployment.¹¹⁾
• Loss of the sense of worth or dignity people derive from work.¹²⁾
• Lossy automation where valuable parts of a process get forgotten.
• Workers have less say in economic decisions.
• Economic inequality increases.¹³⁾

• I would not be able to be on the forefront of knowledge.
• All the smart people get sucked into working on AI, impoverishing our culture in other ways.
• If making predictions becomes much easier relative to understanding the world, then science may shift its focus away from understanding.

• Strengthening authoritarian control.¹⁴⁾
• Extremely persuasive propaganda causes people to support terrible governments.¹⁵⁾
• Predicting where opposition will arise or who opposes the government leads to an extremely efficient police state.¹⁶⁾
• Facial recognition makes identifying and prosecuting protesters much easier.¹⁷⁾
• Political inequality increases.
• Big Tech gains more influence through propaganda or lobbying.

• Democratization of weapons designs.
• Making bioterrorism easier.¹⁸⁾
• Widespread hacking¹⁹⁾ & cyber thefts.

• Environmental cost of the electricity and water use of data centers.²⁰⁾
• Possibility of AI-run infrastructure being vulnerable to adversarial attacks.²¹⁾
• Widespread socialization with chatbots makes building relationship between people harder.²²⁾
• Failure of institutions that do not keep up with changes.
• Loss of meaning from being useful if AI does everything better than me.

(Main article: Is AI an existential risk to humanity?)

• Many thinkers believe advanced artificial intelligence (AI) poses a large threat to humanity's long term survival or flourishing.

• Powerful which is aligned opposite to human values enslaves and tortures humans.²³⁾
• AI accelerates competition, leading to a Malthusian trap where everything of value is discarded to be more competitive.²⁴⁾
• Mind uploading appears attractive from the outside, but actually has negative value.

• Mass servitude.²⁵⁾
• Normalization of slavery.²⁶⁾
• S-risk for the AI.

• We give up on growth.
• We become uncompetitive with yet-unseen alien civilizations.
• A warning shot causes a Butlerian jihad, which leads to the collapse of civilization.
• Getting locked into a suboptimal partial transhumanist future, or just a plain human-locked future.