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How Could Superintelligence Go For The Average Person?

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The development of artificial general intelligence (AGI), and superintelligence soon after, will be close to, if not the most significant event in history. The average person will likely have little to no effect on the trajectory of AI’s development. But its effect on them will be great. Philosophers and futurists who try to predict the shape of things to come often talk in grand terms about the fate of the cosmic endowment. But this zoomed-out perspective can sometimes obscure what’s happening to the average person in the scenarios the philosophers debate.For someone like you or me, what could the future hold in store? Here’s our guess at the range of possible outcomes. The scenarios are ordered from worst to best in expectation, irrespective of how probable we think they are. Malicious AI Takeover. Extreme suffering. Superintelligence causes an s-risk. See Scott Alexander's description of hell in the book Unsong (warning: graphic) or Rational Animations’s video on fates worse than ex

How Could Superintelligence Go For The Average Person? Not “the fate of the cosmic endowment.” Just you, or me. Jason Hausenloy and Miles Kodama Jun 05, 2025 5 1 Share The development of artificial general intelligence (AGI), and superintelligence soon after, will be close to, if not the most significant event in history. The average person will likely have little to no effect on the trajectory of AI’s development. But its effect on them will be great. Philosophers and futurists who try to predict the shape of things to come often talk in grand terms about the fate of the cosmic endowment. But

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