Seth Lazar on rogue AI risk: no good reason to put a tight upper bound on it
sethlazar · x · 2026-09-06
Philosopher and AI safety researcher Seth Lazar pushed back on the view that rogue AI is a serious-but-not-top-10 problem: once you concede rogue AI is a real threat, any attempt to bound its magnitude relies on a priori or highly speculative reasoning, so error bars must stay wide. The point isn't whose speculation is right — it's that downside risks can't be confidently quantified.
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