Existential Risk: The Doomsday Debate

 

It’s the nightmare scenario: AI surpasses human intelligence and we lose control.

  • Superintelligence fears: thinkers like Nick Bostrom warn of runaway systems.

  • Misaligned goals: an AI told to “optimize paperclips” could wipe out humanity in pursuit of its task.

  • Corporate pressure to move fast risks ignoring safety.

Is it alarmism or foresight? Either way, the stakes couldn’t be higher.

 

Powered by AI (and snacks) might be a joke —
but it’s less scary than “Powered by AI (and everything).”

 
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