Scholars Warn Against Directly Analogizing AI Risk to Pandemics

Multiple authors argue that directly comparing AI takeover risks to the COVID-19 pandemic is a category mistake. They emphasize that while pandemics have historical precedents and scientific bases for probability estimation, AI existential risks lack comparable empirical evidence and rely heavily on debatable assumptions.

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