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#81 - Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments

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Ai Risk - Is There a Brain in a Box?

The brain in a box act, borrowing a term from alsrkowski. I think the basic idea is that for some period of time there may be some amount of ai progress, but it won't really transform the world all that much. Youhave something that's almost like a human brain you have sitting on a computer somewhere. And i think that's often kin o almost implicitly background to allow these presentations of ai risk. It seems like a lot of classic presentations af ai risk seem to presume a relatively specific ai development snario.

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