The speaker argues that people should remain very concerned about losing control to AI systems, regardless of the semantics used to describe their motivations or collectives.

“and you can call this manipulation that's happening as just matrix multiplies having some unintended consequences as a result of automation pressure but that is in fact what is happening um but i think you should be then still really concerned about loss of control to this system regardless of the semantics you use to describe its motivations or the collectives that it forms um but i also feel just like this this”