Is this a badly conducted survey of non-experts? http://sophia.de/pdf/2014_PT-AI_polls.pdf
Edit: In particular, the TOP100 subgroup.
Edit: In particular, the TOP100 subgroup.
Even Stuart Russel, the only CS guy in the AI risk camp, doesn't actually believe that AGI is anywhere near. But he works on it simply because he thinks we can do solve some of the problems like learning from demonstrations instead of (possibly faulty) rewards. That's actually a core AI research topic, not a AI ethics/values/blahblah topic. Oh, and also because this allows him to have a differentiated research program, and thus directs any funding on this niche to him.