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Re:Statement on AI Risk by staunton on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @01:20PM (#36127605)
Who in the world is an expert on existential risk? It's kind of hard to have empirically tested knowledge about that sort of thing.
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Re:Statement on AI Risk by RandomLensman on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @02:36PM (#36128705)
Pretty sure there are people looking into nuclear deterrence, bioterrorism defense, planetary defense etc. (We didn't have a nuclear war or some bioweapon killing everyone, for example, despite warnings).

There are people studying how previous societies got into existential risk situations, too.

We also have a huge amount of socio-economic modelling going into climate change, for example.

So I'd say there should be quite a few around.

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