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Breakdown of existential risks

by Stuart_Armstrong

23rd Nov 2012

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Due to my colleague, Anders Sandberg:

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Shmi14y20

Why does superintelligence require global coordination? Apparently all one needs to do is to develop an FAI, and the rest will take care of itself.

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Stuart_Armstrong14y50

Preventing UFAI or dealing safely with Oracles or using reduced impact AIs requires global coordination. Only the "FAI in a basement" approach doesn't.

-3MattMahoney14y

Because FAI is a hard problem. If it were easy then we would not still be paying people $70 trillion per year worldwide to do work that machines aren't smart enough to do yet.

-7timtyler14y