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Comments on Carlsmith's "Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?"

📅 2021
policy development
🔵 Rare
#ai #ai timelines #nanotechnology

📖 Description

The following are some comments I gave on Open Philanthropy Senior Research Analyst Joe Carlsmith's Apr. 2021 "[Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1smaI1lagHHcrhoi6ohdq3TYIZv0eNWWZMPEy8C8byYg/edit#)", published with permission and lightly edited. Joe replied; his comments are included inline. I gave a few quick replies in response, that I didn't want to worry about cleaning up; Rob Bensinger has summarized a few of them and those have also been added inline.

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