Oct 22, 2023
Superintelligence should scare us only insofar as it grants
superpowers. Protecting against specific harms of specific
plausible powers may be our best strategy for preventing
catastrophes.
For much of the AI safety community, the central question has
been “when will it happen?!” That is futile: we don’t have a
coherent description of what “it” is, much less how “it” would come
about. Fortunately, a prediction wouldn’t be useful anyway. An AI
apocalypse is possible, so we should try to avert it.
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