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Who knows. It's completely uncharted territory. It's not hard to imagine how malevolent AGI could end us.

The illusion of control over something that may well have incomprehensible intelligence is a joke. Tell me, what control does the farm animal have over its own fate?

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That it is completely uncharted territory is exactly my point – which is why when people string together a series of predictions to build a narrative that happens to appeal to our most base instincts, e.g. fear, we should be highly skeptical.

Obviously there is a wide range of possibilities from the utopian, to the benign, to the apocalyptic.

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