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The 'Don't Look Up' Thinking That Could Doom Us With AI | Time

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If superintelligence drives humanity extinct, it probably won’t be because it turned evil or conscious, but because it turned competent

Suppose a large inbound asteroid were discovered, and we learned that half of all astronomers gave it at least 10% chance of causing human extinction, just as a similar asteroid exterminated the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. Since we have such a long history of thinking about this threat and what to do about it, from scientific conferences to Hollywood blockbusters, you might expect humanity to shift into high gear with a deflection mission to steer it in a safer direction. Sadly, I now feel that we’re living the movie “ Don’t look up ” for another existential threat: unaligned superin

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