Brain dump on the diversity of AI risk | Jascha’s blog - https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2023/09/10/diversity-ai-risk.html
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AI has the power to change the world in both wonderful and terrible ways. We should try to make the wonderful outcomes more likely than the terrible ones. Towards that end, here is a brain dump of my thoughts about how AI might go wrong, in rough outline form. I am not the first person to have any of these thoughts, but collecting and structuring these risks was useful for me. Hopefully reading them will be useful for you. My top fears include targeted manipulation of humans, autonomous weapons, massive job loss, AI-enabled surveillance and subjugation, widespread failure of societal mechanism
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