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Why Would AI Want to Kill Us? With Nate Soares
It has been a huge week for AI safety.
For those of us deeply concerned about this historically niche cause, it has felt a bit like one’s cult emo band has suddenly rocketed to the top of the charts. People suddenly care, a lot. And for good reason.
The principal reason is this tweet — the most viral tweet in recent memory — suggesting that the frontier labs do not have it figured out, and that we are on the edge of a dangerous precipice. (FWIW, I tend to agree with the tweet’s concerns.)
Calibrating risk is a difficult thing. We look for experts who can tell us how bad things are. With…
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