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Yes. That is one of the things in possibility space. I don't think unaligned means safe. We work with unaligned people all the time, and some of them aren't safe either. 

The main thing I was hoping people would understand from this is that an unaligned AI is near a 100% possibility. Alignment isn't a one and done goal that so many people act like it is. Even if you successfully align an AI, all it takes is one failure to align and the genie is out of the bottle.  One single point of failure and it becomes a cascading failure. 

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I do not, because a future where an unaligned superintelligence takes over is precisely as survivable as a future in which the sun spontaneously implodes. Any apocalypse that you can plan for isn't really an apocalypse.

This can be addressed by peer to peer tech and federation. Peertube uses few techniques, that make it more tentable: hosting on the site itself, site to site sharing (activity pub), and bittorent to fill the massive demand. The bittorent part is on by default and there are already more than then an few instances which people can share on.