LLMs don't need to be the dangerous ASI thing themselves for them to still be dangerous. It suffices if they
- destabilize the world just by what they do: making previously very hard things (generating fake everything, manipulating people, hacking, bio-weapons research) easy enough fast enough that our civilization doesn't cope with it and/or
- accelerate AI research to the point where they make the dangerous ASI thing appear years earlier than would otherwise have happened
LLMs don't need to be the dangerous ASI thing themselves for them to still be dangerous. It suffices if they
- destabilize the world just by what they do: making previously very hard things (generating fake everything, manipulating people, hacking, bio-weapons research) easy enough fast enough that our civilization doesn't cope with it and/or
- accelerate AI research to the point where they make the dangerous ASI thing appear years earlier than would otherwise have happened