Debate: P(permanent human disempowerment) is basically 100%, says AI risk skeptic
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-21
An exchange on superintelligence risk: the poster puts P(everybody dies) low but P(permanent human disempowerment) near 100%, arguing labs' "optimists" explicitly aim to hand control to superintelligence—yielding scenarios like humanity in resource-bubbles, selective breeding into docile user farms, or cognitive decline into primitivism. The retweeter adds that 99.9% of humans are already disempowered by global forces; only a tiny fraction will gain unprecedented power via AI.
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