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Bonus: Preventing an AI-Related Catastrophe

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Why People Might Deploy Misaligned AI

Power-seeking AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. People might deploy misaligned AI systems despite the risk. Catching a sufficiently advanced AI in deception seems potentially harder than catching a human in a lie, which isn't always easy. We think making humans extinct is one highly plausible way of ensuring that we are never able to regain power.

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