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15 Ways AI Ends the World | The Shoggoth Is at the Door

Fifteen ways artificial intelligence ends the world, and not one of them is a robot uprising.

Every scenario starts as a gift: a cheaper workforce, a cooler planet, a faster defense, a cure. Every one is built on something that has already happened, from the GPT-4 test where the model lied to a gig worker to get past a CAPTCHA, to the war games where frontier models never once chose to back down. The last scenario is the only one where nobody dies, and it's the worst one on the table.

Featuring Roman Yampolskiy (University of Louisville), Nate Soares (Machine Intelligence Research Institute)…

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