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I'm unaware of an empirical demonstration of the feasibility of the singularity hypothesis. Annihilation by nuclear or biological warfare on the other hand, we have ample empirical pretext for.

We have ample empirical pretext to worry about things like AI ethics, automated trading going off the rails and causing major market disruptions, transparency around use of algorithms in legal/medical/financial/etc. decision-making, oligopolies on AI resources, etc.... those are demonstrably real, but also obviously very different in kind from generalized AI doomsday.