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You can search all Threadiverse communities on https://lemmyverse.net/communities.

EDIT: One place you might try would be !futurism@lemmy.ca. Not much going on there at the moment, but as per its description:

A place to discuss the ideas, developments, and technology that can and will shape the future of civilization.

That's not specific to AI alone, much less pessimistic views, but how technologies like it will impact society would be in scope.

EDIT2: As to moderators being active, there's not presently much there to moderate. One mod seems to have been inactive for two years, but @troyunrau@lemmy.ca looks to be alive, commented somewhere three days ago. And there aren't any memes or rage-stuff presently on there, if that's what you're hoping to have moderated away.

!techtakes@awful.systems has a lot of criticism of AI, though it extends toward all the silliness of the tech industry. There is a weekly thread called stubsack for things that don't warrant their own post.

Your quest is flawed from the outset.

You should be looking for a community to honestly and openly discuss AI, not one with a prescribed viewpoint from the outset.

The fuckai and fuckcars and fuckwhateverelse communities can be satisfying but they are fundamentally biased, and tend to reinforce self righteous viewpoints that are emotionally satisfying in the short term, but reductively mischaracterize the situation and motives involved to the point that it leaves people with an angry, hollow, and unsatisfying perspective.

/c/fuckai has two dozen mods

I blocked that place long ago, but randomly when I go to block someone for trolling, they mod /fuckai

Seemed pretty obvious they're pro-ai larping as the charecture of what they think people who don't like ai are like.

At least, I hope those aren't real people acting authentically.

I just did a scroll through the posts returned for a search of "gary marcus" and didn't see too much. His newsletter hits a lot of the main beats if you just want occasional updates when something happens. It doesn't look too much like a channel exists though