Richard Hollerith. 15 miles north of San Francisco. hruvulum@gmail.com
My probability that AI research will end all human life is .92. It went up drastically when Eliezer started going public with his pessimistic assessment in April 2022. Till then my confidence in MIRI (and knowing that MIRI has enough funding to employ many researchers) was keeping my probability down to about .4. (I am glad I found out about Eliezer’s assessment.)
Currently I am willing to meet with almost anyone on the subject of AI extinction risk.
Last updated 26 Sep 2023.
The vast majority of people would be opposed to the death of themselves, their families and their friends no matter how awesome the artificial systems that caused those deaths turn out to be after their expansion to all the galaxies reachable from Earth. The correctness of their preference would be obvious to them; they wouldn’t have to think about it for more than 5 minutes. But I’m guessing it is not obvious to you.