Fear Power, Not Intelligence

Superintelligence should scare us only insofar as it grants superpowers. Protecting against specific harms of specific plausible powers may be our best strategy for preventing catastrophes.

 

 

For much of the AI safety community, the central question has been "when will it happen?!" That is futile: we don't have a coherent description of what "it" is, much less how "it" would come about. Fortunately, a prediction wouldn't be useful anyway. An AI apocalypse is possible, so we should try to avert it.

 

 

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