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One: Toby Ord on existential risks

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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Are We Going to Follow Business as Usual?

Business as usual means doing what we are approximately doing now, extrapolated into the future. The two risks that i think the highest are risks from unallined artificial intelligence and risk from engineered pendemics. I don't really thinkthey could happen next year. But i think, ha t they could well happen over the next hundred years. And so i think that when that realized, if i'm right that these risks are large at all, then that will become more obvious to people.

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