MIRI's Rob Bensinger clashes over IABIED's p(doom) certainty
EigenGender · x · 2026-09-14
Critic EigenGender says that after reading If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, the book never seriously addresses "why do you believe this with high certainty."
MIRI researcher Rob Bensinger responds that a tweet can't compress chapters 4-5's full arguments and nuances, but none of them change the core claim: an ASI built with modern ML this decade is very unlikely to love us and promote our flourishing.
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