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Preventing an AI-related catastrophe - 80,000 Hours

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Why do we think that reducing risks from AI is one of the most pressing issues of our time? There are technical safety issues that we believe could, in the worst case, lead to an existential threat to humanity.

Why AI risks are the world’s most pressing problems | 80,000 Hours Search for: On this page: Introduction 1 How advanced AI could pose the world’s most pressing problems 1.1 1. AI could replace human labour in the most economically valuable fields 1.2 2. Replacing this much human labour could trigger the next radical transformation of society 1.3 3. This transformation could be extremely rapid and dramatic 1.4 4. A rapid, AI-driven transformation would raise a range of major challenges, including existential risks 1.5 5. Work on these problems is tractable but neglected 2 Objections and

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