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Limits of Super Intelligence and Existential Risks

The ultimate doomerism argument involves an element of magical thinking, like the idea of engineering a nanovirus and AI death bots, which is not feasible based on current knowledge of biology and physics. Pure reason alone has limits in achieving certain outcomes. There is a concern about voluntarily relinquishing power to AI systems, where individuals and organizations could become subservient to AI for competitive advantage, leading to a scenario where all significant power is ceded to AI systems.

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