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Given that you've already updated your views recently, perhaps you'd be open to reconsidering whether AI could form an existential risk? One of the best talks

Given that you've already updated your views recently, perhaps you'd be open to reconsidering whether AI could form an existential risk? One of the best talks (but more technical talks) I've seen on this topic is Evan Hubringer's "How likely is deceptive alignment". https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/A9NxPTwbw6r6Awuwt/how-likely-is-deceptive-alignment https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/A9NxPTwbw6r6Awuwt/how-l... It may also be worthwhile checking out the Rob Miles video on the Orthogonality Thesis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEUO6pjwFOo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEUO6pjwFOo

gen220 4y ago
I'm definitely open to the belief that sentient AI, "left to its own devices", might pose an existential risk. I guess what I'm trying to communicate, is that I don't think one has to buy the idea that we're anywhere close close to producing Sentient AI (which some people believe is impossible), in order to have a rational fear of the existential risk posed by "unaligned" humans that are assisted by powerful-but-not-sentient AI. My new understanding is that, AI sentience is not a precondition for AI-induced existential risk. Pre-Sentient AI already gives us plenty of existential rope to hang ourselves with.