Re:The systems that no one will test
by myrmidon on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:09PM
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> There are a many fields (bio-tech, nuclear, chemical) which could provide an "existential risks"
I honestly don't think chemical and current biological weapons even register on the extinction-risk scale.
All out nuclear war I would put at the very low end of the scale (likely to end our current civilization, very unlikely to wipe out our species).
The big risk with AI I'm anticipating is not it being abused for desinformation campaigns or cyberattacks; the big risk in my view is AI actor(s) consolidating manufacturing control, obtaining some kind of self-replicability and physical agency and then just pursuing self-interests (within the next century). There is a lot of imaginable scenarios where that simply ends us, as a species, completely.
I honestly don't think chemical and current biological weapons even register on the extinction-risk scale.
All out nuclear war I would put at the very low end of the scale (likely to end our current civilization, very unlikely to wipe out our species).
The big risk with AI I'm anticipating is not it being abused for desinformation campaigns or cyberattacks; the big risk in my view is AI actor(s) consolidating manufacturing control, obtaining some kind of self-replicability and physical agency and then just pursuing self-interests (within the next century). There is a lot of imaginable scenarios where that simply ends us, as a species, completely.