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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Existential Risk

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Ben Sixsmith
Apr 03, 2023
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Here’s a fun and modish question for the ‘stack: will AI pose an existential risk? A lot of very smart people in the field think that it could. Granted, these are also people who are professionally and emotionally invested in the importance of AI safety.1 Moreover, a lot of very smart tech people just blew up their own bank in a fit of panic.

Still, even

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