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Gentleness and the artificial Other

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(This is the first essay in a series that I’m calling “Otherness and control in the age of AGI.” See here for more about the series as a whole. PDF of the full series here.) When species meet The most succinct argument for AI risk, in my opinion, is the “second species” argument. Basically, it goes like this. Premise 1: AGIs would be like a second advanced species on earth, more powerful than h

(This is the first essay in a series that I’m calling “Otherness and control in the age of AGI.” See here for more about the series as a whole. PDF of the full series here.) When species meet The most succinct argument for AI risk, in my opinion, is the “second species” argument. Basically, it goes like this. Premise 1: AGIs would be like a second advanced species on earth, more powerful than humans. Conclusion: That’s scary. To be clear: this is very far from airtight logic.1 But I like the intuition pump. Often, if I only have two sentences to explain AI risk, I say this sort of…

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