Same AI Impacts survey: participants average 52% on HLMI being net positive
DrTechlash · x · 2026-09-15
Adding to his critique of the AI Impacts survey, the author notes an overlooked finding: on average participants put 52% on the overall impacts of high-level machine intelligence being good, versus 28% for bad outcomes—meaning the headline-grabbing "extinction probability" is not the survey's overall tone.
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