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Eliezer Yudkowksy: AI is going to kill us all

Decoding the Gurus

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The Critical Try

We have to get alignment right on the first called critical try. This is how this connects to the whole doomer. It is something sufficiently smarter than you that everyone will die if it's not aligned. So just the whole alien outside Lex in the box, Code John Van Neumann copies doing it all.

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