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Chapters

Introduction

Hard Calls and Easy Calls

This is the first online supplement to Yudkowsky and Soares’s If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Each chapter’s page answers common questions, and includes extended discussions that go into background and details that weren’t essential to the book.

These resources contain a lot of content, and are not designed to be read end-to-end. We wrote the book to stand on its own and to cover the entire core argument. But if you have a specific question, objection, or curiosity that the book couldn’t do justice to, there’s a good chance you’ll find more about it here. If we’re missing something important, submit a question.

Questions

  1. Why write a book about superhuman AI as an extinction threat?
  2. Are you suggesting that ChatGPT could kill us all?
  3. Aren’t people always panicking and overreacting to things?
  4. When is this worrisome sort of AI going to be developed?
  5. Can we use past progress to extrapolate when we’ll build smarter-than-human AI?
  6. What are your incentives and conflicts of interest, as authors?
  7. Isn’t this AI stuff just science fiction?

Extended Discussion

  1. AI Experts on Catastrophe Scenarios
  2. When Leo Szilard Saw the Future

Source: ifanyonebuildsit.com/intro