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He expects the bad guy with an AI to be stopped by a good guy with an AI?


No, he expects the AI to kill us all even if it was built by a good guy.

How much this result improves his outlook, we don't know, but he previously put our chance of extinction at over 95%: https://pauseai.info/pdoom


These guys and their black hole harvesting dreams always sound way too optimistic to me.

Humanity has a 100% chance of going extinct. Take it or leave it.


It'd be nice if it weren't in the next decade though.


No, he expects a bad AI to be unstoppable by anybody, including the unwitting guy who runs it.


works for gun control :)


I hope this is sarcasm because that is hardly a rule!




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