willcb: Extreme Capital Concentration and Agent Legal Personhood Are Humanity's Biggest Risks
willcb · x · 2026-10-17
willcb argues humanity's two biggest risks are extreme capital concentration and granting AI agents legal personhood. He prefers alignment-to-operator over alignment-to-creator because we already have robust systems for aligning operators, despite dual-use risks; a reply notes a scaled-up EIC may be an s-risk.
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