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Introduction
This is a re-broadcast of an article originally written and recorded for 80,000 hours. It's titled Preventing an AI-related Catastrophe. As these systems grow more advanced, they could eventually displace humans as the most intelligent things on the planet. What could an AI cause to existential catastrophe look like? Why is it that humans and not chimpanzees control the fate of the world? We'll go into those arguments in far more detail below.