Hacker News with Generative AI: Existential Risk

If anyone builds this, everyone dies (ifanyonebuildsit.com)
The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction — but it's not too late to change course, as two of the field's earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity.
Artificial Intelligence, Existential Risk
5 points by lumenwrites 20 hours ago | 2 comments
Gradual Disempowerment: How Even Incremental AI Progress Poses Existential Risks (arxiv.org)
This paper examines the systemic risks posed by incremental advancements in artificial intelligence, developing the concept of `gradual disempowerment', in contrast to the abrupt takeover scenarios commonly discussed in AI safety.
Artificial Intelligence, Existential Risk, AI Safety
87 points by mychaelangelo 111 days ago | 84 comments
AI existential risk probabilities are too unreliable to inform policy (aisnakeoil.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Existential Risk, Policy
15 points by haltingproblem 301 days ago | 4 comments
All the existential risk, none of the economic impact (theintrinsicperspective.com)
Existential Risk, Economics, AI
102 points by paulpauper 305 days ago | 98 comments
OpenAI Insider Estimates 70% Chance AI Will Destroy or Tragically Harm Humanity (futurism.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Existential Risk, OpenAI
22 points by jc_811 347 days ago | 75 comments