In Copenhagen the summer before last, I shared a taxi with a man who thought his chance of dying in an artificial intelligence-related accident was as high as that of heart disease or cancer. No surprise if he’d been the driver, perhaps (never tell a taxi driver that you’re a philosopher!), but this was a man who has spent his career with computers.
Huy Price (Cambridge philosopher) writes about existential risk for NYT
NYTimes
Nothing new for LW, but interesting to see some non-sci-fi public discussion of AI risk.