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Bonus: Preventing an AI-Related Catastrophe

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Dot Point, AI-Related Catastrophes

How likely is an AI-related catastrophe? This is a really difficult question to answer. We're definitely not certain that the arguments we've presented are completely correct. Other moral mistakes made in the design and use of AI systems, particularly if future AI systems are themselves deserving of moral consideration. For example, perhaps we will inadvertently create conscious AI systems, which could then suffer in huge numbers. That's a link to another 80,000 hours webpage on artificial sentience.

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