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How to Think About A.I. Risk

Possibly the most boring way to think about AI risk is to compare it to nuclear fission.

Nuclear fission was an immensely important scientific discovery, which took incredible intellectual and material resources to achieve. It offered the promise of nuclear power, but also the existential threat of nuclear weapons. It was a testament to human ingenuity b…