Robert Miles: Killing every last human is hard — toppling civilization beyond recovery is far easier
inductionheads · x · 2026-09-20
AI safety researcher Robert Miles argues that extinction-risk debates often set the wrong bar: "killing every last human" is very hard, whereas "overthrowing humanity such that it never recovers and dies out after a while" is enormously easier — and the latter is all that's needed. The reposter quips that another doomer extinction fantasy has arrived, but the quoted point is a well-known clarification of how AI existential risk arguments should be framed.
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