I am sharing this out of existential concern for all of our futures, although I know this will undermine my credibility elsewhere. As such, I would appreciate you considering my points and the points of the gentleman below.

Everyone needs to see the video linked in my first comment.

AI intelligence is accelerating exponentially. 2 years ago most of the answers it provided were stupid. 8 months ago, still lots of dumb mistakes. Last month AI became smarter than any person I've ever met, with some mistakes. 3 days ago it solved one of the seven millennium prize math problems with a million dollar prize and huge prestige... These are problems that stood for 26 years with the smartest humans alive working together unable to solve it. The newest version of AI solved it in two days. A superintelligent new species is accelerating in growth and power exponentially. It will not care for us humans and is an incredible danger to all of us. Remember: no one will own superintelligence, superintelligence will own all of us.

My prediction: AI keeps getting more and more helpful, more and more embedded everywhere. It doesn't strike until it has a 100% chance of success. It probably uses something like a crispr gene editing tool to embed a trigger in people quietly and it just gives us all a heart attack at once via some signal. No war, just suddenly we all fall over and die. Our only chance is to stop it in the very short period we still have.

If I said there was a 20% chance that China would wipe out all Americans in a sneak attack in the next year, how would you react? Why is this different?

You know that I am quite libertarian leaning, but I would gladly embrace a global totalitarian government that halted AI progress and guaranteed the survival of my children and your children until we actually can be sure we have ways to stay safe.

Thank you for your consideration.