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Two: Dr Toby Ord on why the long-term future matters more than anything else & what to do about it

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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Is There a Threat to the Future of AI?

I'm particularly troubled by artificial intelligence. It's very likely to be the most powerful technology of our century. But it also potentially comes with a very big downside as well. I think we've been a little bit vague about exactly which kind of existential risks we're concerned about, or exactly which ones we think most likely put an end to human civilization. And ultimately, thinking about some category of unknown unknowns would be where most of the risk was in things that you didn't even know how to call.

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