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Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its huma... by josephcsible on Sunday July 24, 2022 @02:58AM (#32211061)
You seem to be comparing only the worst-case impact and not the probability. To see why that's fallacious, consider that an asteroid could also kill the entire human race, but nobody would agree that asteroids are more dangerous than drunk driving.
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Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its huma... by ALittleLight on Sunday July 24, 2022 @03:26AM (#32211183)
I think there's a high probability of AGI within a century. Surveys show most experts share that opinion. It's hard to know the probability that the AI will be misaligned - but currently we have no idea how to align it. It's also hard to say how likely a misaligned AI would be to cause extinction. However, we have no reason to think that either of those things are unlikely.
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