I have never worried about the singularity because I had a single conversation in 2007 with a guy who worked in a chip fab, and learned just the tiniest bit about the physical, mechanical process that goes into actually manufacturing a microprocessor, and how much of it requires direct intervention of human hands despite everyone involved in the process having wanted to automate it all since 1980
literally nothing that anyone involved with AI on any level has said in the intervening decades has shaken my ironclad conviction that we are a hundred years out from a skynet-style self-sustaining AI situation. if the alignment-bro apocalyptic scenario were to take place, where suddenly there was market demand for an unlimited supply of chips to power an infinite army of self-sustaining killer robots, the folks in the fabs would say "nevermind, no thanks" and just go home
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