Weighing lives: does AI-accelerated medical research outweigh existential risk?
MaxUnfried · x · 2026-09-21
The author poses an expected-value thought experiment: are the expected lives saved by AI accelerating medical research greater or smaller than the expected lives lost if AI ends up killing us all? No quantitative answer is given — it's an open invitation to reason about AI's benefit-risk tradeoff.
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