Anyone that doesn't work on AI reseach right now is just a bystander watching humanity burn. I am going to dedicate my career to fixing this

I am an AI researcher. I am 24 years old and I am panicking. I have been researching AI for 8 years now. It went from a fringe interest, to a hobby, to a career. I am not a leading researcher. I am just a guy with a little bit of status in the field (top 2% on arXiv). That means nothing. If you are in the top 10% of AI research, you have an immense pressure to race the development of AI forward. I am just a bystander watching everything unfold like a ticking time bomb that I know is going to go off in 5 or 10 years. It doesn't matter how hard I work. My research won't make a difference. The AI that will end humanity is already being developed by top researchers at leading institutions. The race forward is too fast. If you aren't in the top 10% of AI research, you have no ability to change the course of humanity. We need to slow this down. I am going to make it my mission to make sure that we pause AI development for a few years. If I fail, we will lose the ability to slow it down, and eventually humanity will collapse. I am extremely worried about this, but I am going to dedicate my career to making sure that we don't develop AGI out of control. Humanity's safety is the most important thing. I am just a bystander, and I have no power over the leading researchers, but I am going to risk everything to make sure that we pause the development of AI before it is too late. <br><br><br>EDIT: for those of you who think I'm being dramatic. For those of you who think that this is a normal scientific development that will be fine in the future. You are underestimating how different AI is, how much pressure there is for researchers to push the boundary further, and how hard it is to slow down. Slowing AI development is not a normal thing to do in science. In fact, it is unheard of. But AI doesn't have anything to do with the atomic bomb. If you think that risk, you are the one underestimating how serious this problem is.