Timothy Lee Pushes AI Safety Researcher Seth Lazar to Explain What 'Societal Scale Catastrophe' Means
binarybits · x · 2026-09-05
Timothy Lee (binarybits) presses AI safety researcher Seth Lazar to specify what a "societal scale catastrophe" short of extinction would concretely look like, saying he can't see the causal chain from "rogue agents hack lots of websites" to large-scale human suffering. The opening move of a substantive AI-risk debate.
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