Bonus: Preventing an AI-Related Catastrophe
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Artificial General Intelligence
Couldn't we just sandbox any potentially dangerous AI system until we know it's safe? Surely a truly intelligent AI system would know not to disempower everyone. But can't AI also do a lot of good? You'd have to be really stupid to build or use a system that could genuinely kill everyone, right? Why shouldn't I dismiss this as motivated reasoning by a group of people who just like playing with computers and want to think that's important? This all reads and feels like science fiction. Can it make sense to dedicate my career to solving an issue based on a speculative story about a technology that may or may not ever exist? Is this a form of Pascal's mugging
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