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No, the worry (such as it is) is that corporations ultimately benefit a class of humans (and at least need other humans to exist to exploit them), whereas AI, if it becomes independent, neither essentially benefits the capitalist class nor essentially needs other classes to exploit.

The people most concerned about alignment are capitalists, and they are mostly concerned with the benefit side, since they see aligned AI eliminating at least a large part of the need for the rest of humanity for corporations to provide the benefits it does to them as a plus.

While they talk about X-risk, what they try to avoid is that for everyone but themselves, they (especially with the exclusive control of aligned [to their interests] AI that they seek to use fear of unaligned AI to secure) are as much of an X-risk as unaligned AI, and a lot more real and present.



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