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#65 – Katja Grace on Slowing Down AI and Whether the X-Risk Case Holds Up

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The Future of AI

It is the case that there are some humans who try to take over the world, but they tend to fail. There aren't many of them and there are lots of humans who don't want the world to be taken over by those people. And similarly, you can imagine if there is some AI system that wants to take overthe world, but it's not quite powerful enough on its own. Well, that's only kind of tentatively good because you might point out that if it became a thousand times more powerful along some dimension then suddenly it has a good shot. Is that roughly the idea? Yeah, I don't know if I'd say indefinitely better, but I guess it could

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