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AI risk arguments

Do you find the following argument compelling?

57 people have given 497 responses

Statements with the highest number of 👍 or the highest number of 👎 appear at the top (if everyone thinks 👎, that's consensus too)

Risk from competent malign agents - AI agents could be competent and want different things from humans, which could be bad for us

73%
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Expert opinion - Many AI experts are worried about the destructive capabilities of AI

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Catastrophic tools - AI might lower the cost or knowledge required to make catastrophic weapons

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Loss of control via speed - Additional speed makes many situations more dangerous. AI is developing very fast

66%
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Large impacts suggest large risks - AI's impacts are likely to be very large

66%
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Black boxes - We don't understand how AI systems work, so they might be very destructive

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Second species argument - Apes should have been wary of "inventing" a species more intelligent than themselves, so should we

50%
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AI may produce or accelerate destructive multi-agent dynamics - There may not be a stable equilibrium with AI in it

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Loss of control via inferiority - A child heir to a large fortune could struggle to know which adults to trust and so slowly lose control of it

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Humans aren't aligned to one another - Given full control, most people's utopias are incompatible. AI isn't new here, but it gives more power to achieve "utopias" that others might find horrific

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26%