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AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities

Eliezer Yudkowsky · 2022

"Aligning superintelligent AI is unsolved and likely fatal by default; current efforts are inadequate."

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Eliezer Yudkowsky's brutally pessimistic essay outlining why he believes humanity is almost certainly going to be wiped out by Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). He argues that the alignment problem is too hard and we are running out of time.

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