Many believe that advancing AI on net reduces global catastrophic risks via reducing other risks. Some technologists believe that creating AGI would be of cosmic significance outweighing the extinction of humans, often rooted in the idea that this significance is due to AGI's superior intelligence. Others have claimed that Larry Page has dismissed concerns about extinction risk from AI based on the idea that it would be speciesist to prioritize survival over creation of AGI.
A reading of "Given Extinction Worries, Why Don’t AI Researchers Quit? Well, Several Reasons" by Daniel Eth.
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