zetalyrae: superintelligent AI leads to jobless UBI dystopia or doom — only one needs to happen
zetalyrae · x · 2026-09-08
In a discussion with @jawillick, zetalyrae argues two AGI risk scenarios are parallel rather than mutually exclusive: models that are superintelligent and "aligned enough" yield a jobless UBI dystopia, while models that grow more misaligned lead to classical doom — you only need one bad branch to occur. He says he'll think through the point further.
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