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"So it's either they truly think AI is going to kill us all"

Exactly how does a CPU kill 8 odd billion people? Even if they got hold of the weapons to wipe out a few billion, surely the remain billions would just turn off the data centres?

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Bioweapons, trivially. All it would need to do is convince one person who works in a lab, possibly under the guise of benign intent.

Or... something so far outside of the box that we'd have about as much understanding of it as a baboon does a gun.

Chemist here, what bioweapon do you know of that can wipe out 8 billion people before anyone can do something about it? Never mind one release by a single person. It's really not 'trivial' to slaughter millions of people.

Such a bioweapon (probably) doesn't exist yet, but that doesn't mean it's impossible in principle. It's "trivial" in the sense that it's easy to _imagine_ such a thing... but a superintelligence is by definition much much smarter than humans, so whatever it comes up with will likely be very surprising to us.

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