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ben_wtoday at 4:39 AM1 replyview on HN

FWIW, my P(doom) is quite low (~0.1) because I think we're going to get enough non-doomy-but-still-bad incidents caused by AI which lack the competence to take over, and the response to those will be enough to stop actual doom scenarios.

People like Simon Willson are noting the risk of a Challenger-like disaster, talking about normalisation of deviance as we keep using LLMs which we know to be risky in increasing critical systems. I think an AI analogy to Challenger would not be enough to halt the use of AI in the way I mean, but an AI analogy to Chernobyl probably would.


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ngruhntoday at 11:36 AM

> my P(doom) is quite low (~0.1)

10% or 0.1%? Either way, that's not low! If airplanes crash with that probability, we would avoid them at all cost.

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