Debate heats up over how AI could actually end humanity
A multi-day debate examined concrete mechanisms by which misaligned AI could cause extinction, from bioweapons and nuclear manipulation to empowered bioterrorism. Some argued a plague plus self-replicating robots could collapse the biosphere, with drones hunting the last survivors.
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