Assessing the Likelihood of Human Extinction Due to AI
By
NotInOurNames
Sesame, salt, and substance. A flagship bake.
Summary
The article discusses the likelihood of human extinction at the hands of AI, with one perspective arguing for doom and the other pushing back against it based on the unlikelihood of AI malice. The author questions the validity of extinction scenarios.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledHumans are genetically diverse, geographically diverse, and remarkably resourceful.
Catastrophe seemed likely; outright doom seemed to me, then, to be vanishingly unlikely.
I have always thought a lot of the extinction scenarios were contrived.
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