Physicist @hsu_steve warns humanity may surrender power to AI completely voluntarily because the alternative is getting crushed by competitors who use it: "Gradual disempowerment, which I think people are intuitively aware of, but usually they've not seen it fully formulated this way." "Every single element of our society, whether you're a corporation, a military, a government, or even an individual trying to do well on the dating apps, if you have access to a superior intelligence, an AI, that you need to compete against all the other players, you're gonna start using that AI." "Gradually, even if nothing goes wrong, even if there's no evil AI or there's no AI hacking your systems, you literally are gonna surrender power to it because you will get better outcomes. If you don't surrender power to it, your competitors are gonna beat you. They're gonna crush you." "That's gradual disempowerment. It's gonna happen completely voluntarily as people just hand over power to AI."