Chapter 12
“I Don’t Want to Be Alarmist”
This is the online resource for Chapter 12 of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Some topics covered in the book, rather than here, include:
- How are scientists and engineers currently talking about this problem?
- How are policymakers currently talking (or not) about this problem?
- What benefits from AI are people imagining could outweigh the catastrophic risks that they themselves acknowledge?
Below we discuss a wide range of topics, from the behavior and claims of AI labs to “But it will never be possible to prove that a superintelligence will be safe. Mustn’t we take some risk?”