The Future of Life
Exploring AI risks, the intelligence explosion, & the future of life in the universe.
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The Universe Does Not Belong to Humanity (opens the original)
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A coworker of mine—a very senior, usually practical-minded technology leader—recently had an existential crisis over the possibility that AI could end humanity within a few years.If he came to me for reassurance, I had little to offer. My own estimate of that risk is high.The comfort I could offer, borrowed from Buddhism, did not seem to help: all things end, and clinging too tightly to them can keep us from enjoying them while they last. A life is no less meaningful because it must end.But his
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