Debate: regimes don't need x-risk-level AI to harm their residents
amplifiedamp · x · 2026-09-21
A debate on whether AI empowers authoritarian regimes: one side argues the view is too binary, since powerful AI won't be freely available to every regime. The reply counters that regimes can already harm residents without x-risk-level AI — through poor healthcare or collapsing infrastructure — a clash over how AI risk should be framed.
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