Eliezer Yudkowsky, famous AI researcher followed by AI intellectuals, including YC / OpenAI Sam Altman, has resigned to accepting imminent societal catastrophe from AGI:

https://twitter.com/liron/status/1627863228519960576

Many other top brass from the AI-alignment research community, MIRI, rationalists, lesswrong.com are now similarly disillusioned and resigned since the advent of ChatGPT and Bing Chat / Sydney:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PE22QJSww8mpwh7bt/agi-in-sight-our-look-at-the-game-board

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WkchhorbLsSMbLacZ/ai-1-sydney-and-bing

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yvJevQHxfvcpaJ2P3/bing-chat-is-the-ai-fire-alarm

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EvKa7EakoXreCkhC6/a-way-to-be-okay

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SKweL8jwknqjACozj/another-way-to-be-okay

https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1627161768966463488

As Ethan above says, "I don't think anyone knows what this all means, but I think we should be ready for a very weird world."