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AI Could Defeat All Of Us Combined — LessWrong

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Many people have trouble taking this "misaligned AI" possibility seriously. They might see the broad point that AI could be dangerous, but they instinctively imagine that the danger comes from ways humans might misuse it. They find the idea of AI itself going to war with humans to be comical and wild. I'm going to try to make this idea feel more serious and real. As a first step, this post will emphasize an unoriginal but extremely important point: the kind of AI I've discussed could defeat all of humanity combined, if (for whatever reason) it were pointed toward that goal. By "defeat," I don't mean "subtly manipulate us" or "make us less informed" or something like that - I mean a literal "defeat" in the sense that we could all be killed, enslaved or forcibly contained. I'm not talking (yet) about whether, or why, AIs might attack human civilization. That's for future posts. For now, I just want to linger on the point that if such an attack happened, it could succeed against the combi

x AI Could Defeat All Of Us Combined — LessWrong AI Risk Threat Models (AI) AI Frontpage 170 AI Could Defeat All Of Us Combined by HoldenKarnofsky 9th Jun 2022 Cold Takes 21 min read 42 170 Click lower right to download or find on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, etc. I've been working on a new series of posts about the most important century . The original series focused on why and how this could be the most important century for humanity. But it had relatively little to say about what we can do today to improve the odds of things going well. The new series will get much more specific about

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