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Will AI end everything? A guide to guessing | Katja Grace | EAG Bay Area 23

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The Importance of Having Your Own Guess

There are a bunch of different scenarios that could happen where AI destroys the future. And you can come up with your own guess about it, but I'm not even going to cover most of the stuff in this thought bubble. The very basic argument in Outline is one: At some point, it's going to be very smart AI. It will have goals and if those goals are bad, then the future will be bad. But at this level of abstraction, at the high level, it doesn't really seem to work. You could have some amount of AI, which is smart and has goals and they're bad. And maybe the whole world together could still win out.

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