@julien_c: What's your P(doom)? AI Safety is an important subject, but existential-risk debate is ill-defined, and dominated by hi…
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The tweet argues that the AI existential-risk debate is ill-defined and skewed toward voices with unusually high x-risk estimates, and calls for a broader cross-section of the community to share their P(doom) via a survey.
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What’s your P(doom)?
AI Safety is an important subject, but existential-risk debate is ill-defined, and dominated by highly-visible voices who have a significantly higher-than-average estimates of x-risk probabilities.
So we would like to hear from a broader cross-section of https://t.co/asaeJ0rp2I
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