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Crossposted from the EA Forum. As a PhD student in machine learning and one of the long-time organisers of EA Amsterdam, I have recently gotten a lot of questions about AI from friends, family, meetup attendees, colleagues, and even governmental organisations. As a result, I've decided to write up a...

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Crossposted from the EA Forum.

As a PhD student in machine learning and one of the long-time organisers of EA Amsterdam, I have recently gotten a lot of questions about AI from friends, family, meetup attendees, colleagues, and even governmental organisations.

As a result, I've decided to write up a blog post to summarise the case for (existential) risk from AI that I can refer these people to when that seems useful. The post is an attempt to communicate the risks to both interested laypeople and ML experts (e.g., colleagues), and has gone through a few rounds of review by such people.

Some of them suggested that a recent write up might be useful to... (read 5559 more words →)

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[Crosspost] A recent write-up of the case for AI (existential) risk