1. AGI is coming
2. It will completely change society, the meaning of work and the structure of our economy, perhaps making human labor irrelevant, if it does not destroy us
3. It likely will come in 2-10 years
Hinton himself said that he plans to "get his affairs in order", as he believes humanity only has 4 years left. If you agree with them, you would have to concede that any plans you make with a time horizon longer than that window until AGI will be completely upended and perhaps made irrelevant. If so, have you considered this and has it altered any of your plans for the near future?
If you have not, is it because you do not believe in one or more of the 3 points above, or is it because you feel since nobody really knows how it will go down, it is pointless to worry, fret or change things?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - I am not particularly worried about "evil AI" scenarios ala The Terminator or The Matrix. OTOH, I think there is a real, but hard to quantify, chance of significant job displacement at a scale that hasn't been seen before, and the emergence of even greater disparity in wealth/power/quality-of-life between the "haves" and "have nots". Or to put it another way, I could see a "cyberpunk dystopia" of sorts emerging.
So am I "altering my life plans" in response to that? Not in major ways. And to the extent that I have, I'm not honestly sure I want to talk about it here. I'll just say that I have started focusing more on saving money than what I used to, and pick up another couple of boxes of ammo every now and then. But still, no, for the most part I haven't made any big changes.
Personally, I don't believe 3. I'm not sure I believe 1, either.
I prefer to deal with the reality of now, not worry much about what could happen, and keep myself adaptable.
The energy requirements of actual AGI (not the already energy intensive toys we're playing with now) are simply too huge for us to be able to produce, let alone sustain.