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Artificial intelligence has made incredible progress in the last decade, but in one crucial aspect, it still lags behind the theoretical computer science of the 1990s: namely, there is no essay describing five potential worlds that we could live in and giving each one of them whimsical names. In other words, no one has done...
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In the 5 years since I wrote The Precipice, the question I'm asked most is how the risks have changed. I dive into four of the biggest risks - climate change, nuclear, pandemics, and AI - to show how they've changed.
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AI with superhuman abilities could emerge within the next few years, and there is currently no guarantee that we will be able to control them. We must act now...
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Is AI contributing to solving the climate crisis or to making it worse? Either way, the increase in AI applications goes hand in hand with the need for additional data centers, for which energy resources are currently lacking.
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