Don't fixate on specific AI risk scenarios, argues DeepMind's birchlse
birchlse · x · 2026-11-11
DeepMind researcher birchlse argues that fixating on the plausibility of specific AI risk scenarios is a mistake. Individual scenarios merely exemplify a broader idea: being at the mercy of a vastly more powerful, unaligned agent.
That danger can be realized in innumerable ways and is dangerous in all of them, so debating whether any single script sounds realistic misses the point.
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