The alien thought experiment: humanity could coordinate to pause superhuman AI if it believed the risk
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-09-04
Jim Miller offers a thought experiment: if aliens landed on Earth and demanded we stop developing superhuman AI or they'd destroy the solar system, we would comply. His point is that humanity can coordinate a halt — what's missing is sufficiently strong belief that AI itself poses that kind of existential threat.
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