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

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The Importance of Internalization

People trade off some risk of them dying, like all the time. For example, people drive in cars and you can do some things that like cheaply lower those risks but the risks are never nonzero if you drive. Similarly to when I drive, I'm making a choice between I might die, but I'm okay with that because I need to get on with my everyday life,. Also, oh, I might crash this car and kill somebody else. And here we're speaking about like killing potentially a lot of other people. There's also the extent to which like, well, if I don't do this, the other company might anyway. So like they're both trapped in it.

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