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AI industry extinction warnings are genuine rather than corporate plots for regulatory capture or hype, and they go as far back as the mid-2000s and the 2010s (Scott Alexander/Astral Codex Ten)
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Scott Alexander / Astral Codex Ten: AI industry extinction warnings are genuine rather than corporate plots for regulatory capture or hype, and they go as far back as the mid-2000s and the 2010s — AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI have long mentioned the possibility that their products could be existentially dangerous …
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