I think (from the outside looking in) many lesswrongers are slowly coming around from the "paperclipper" scenario to something more gradual, in response to how the tech seems to be developing currently. More along the lines of "we hand over bigger and bigger parts of running the world to AI systems and this gradually leads to less and less human involvement (until such time as the intelligent systems that run the world see humans as an unnecessary interference that can be done away with)". Something like that at least.

Some pointers here, maybe: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/davidson-on-takeoff-sp...