By the end of this post, I hope you’ll take existential risk more seriously. I hope you will feel as viscerally as I do the stakes of human survival and flourishing.When I tell people, “I think AI is an existential risk”, usually nothing changes about their expression. They nod along, same blank face, thinking about what they’re going to have for lunch today. I want to take them by the shoulders and shake them and ask, “Are you listening? Do you know what I mean when I say ‘existential risk’? Wh