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#64 – Michael Aird on Strategies for Reducing AI Existential Risk

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The Unilateral Curse

There's something called the unilateral curse. The core idea is, if you imagine there's a group of altruistic people and they're all trying to figure out what action will do the most good for the world. But on average, it's fairly likely that at least one of them does the bad thing. So think in your specific case, what seems best to you and talk to a bunch of people.

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