To be honest with you, sometimes things seem so shitty on a world level that I find myself entertaining the "if AGI is possible then let's risk the coin flip of extinction or greateness, I'm tired of all this status-quo bs"
Can't help but think people who want to dabble in this stuff should honestly be doing it on the moon or mars or something where I think a fair bit less can go wrong.
I know it's technically crazy sounding, but for all we know, Earth is the only place with biological life, I think it's better to flip the coin somewhere else if that's what you want to do. Don't screw up here.
Yes, maybe the AI will come for Earth, but I feel like there's less chance of shit going really bad with some distance.