elifland comments on Counterarguments to the basic AI x-risk case

[elifland]

Agree directionally. I made a similar point in my review of “Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?”:

In one sentence, my concern is that the framing of the report and decomposition is more like “avoid existential catastrophe” than “achieve a state where existential catastrophe is extremely unlikely and we are fulfilling humanity’s potential”, and this will bias readers toward lower estimates.