I think this is a reasonable analogy for the risk from rogue AIs. Fukushima was a huge international story and triggered changes to the ways people operate and regulate power plants. But it was 7 to 10 orders of magnitude less serious than human extinction.
Replying to @jon_stokes
My threat model, which I've talked about publicly since at least 2023, is on the order of a Fukushima or (more likely) Thalomide, the latter being a slower-rolling catastrophe that we eventually noticed & root-caused.
