we are already living in the early days of the AI Age, and we need to make some very important decisions about what that actually means. Waiting to make these choices until the debate on existential risks is over means that those choices will be made for us. Additionally, worrying about superintelligence is only one form of AI alignment and ethics, although, due to its spectacular nature, it often overshadows other approaches. The truth is that there is a wide variety of potential ethical concerns that also might fit under the broader category of alignment.
