It’s not enough to point out that AI systems may soon be far more intelligent than us to show that we are unlikely to be able to control them. Leaders in business, government, etc. have been controlling their often far smarter subalterns for millennia. Intelligence doesn’t automatically translate into power, as many intellectuals throughout history discovered once they found themselves in front of a firing squad, to which they were sent by someone generally much dumber than them. This obviously doesn’t show that x-risk can or should be dismissed, but I find it striking how many doomers seem to expect people to make costly decisions just because they have thrown around words like "ASI", apparently thinking they have made an argument.