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All the existential risk, none of the economic impact. That's a shitty trade

I offer "no economic boost," you receive "P(doom)"

Last week The Financial Times had a well-researched piece by Tej Parikh titled “ The bear case for AI.” It included a discussion of previous writing I’ve done on The Intrinsic Perspective that’s been bearish about the AI space. Generative AI’s current applications include writing, image and video creation, automated marketing, and processing information, according to the US Census Bureau’s Business Trends and Outlook Survey. Those will be the most fundamental test for whether intellectual ability is linked to power-seeking, and will set the bar on how easy it is for AIs to “go rogue.” But with that earliness admitted, it’s worth remembering that the Yudkowsky perspective is the absolutely worst-case scenario.

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