[ExI] AGI is going to kill everyone

[Adrian Tymes]

I seem to be alive, and I have strong reason to believe that many other
people are too.

How many predictions were there that AGI would kill everyone by, say, 2020?

On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 8:41 AM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Yudkowsky has been saying versions of this for at least 15 years, and it's
> as true now as it was then.
>
> If we aren't already under the complete and absolute control of a
> superintelligent AGI (Yes, this is isomorphic to "God exists"), we're all
> dead. It really is that simple.
>
> Like the overwhelming majority of people who've been aware of these issues
> since the 90's, Yudkowsky is an atheist, so naturally he lacks even this
> possibility for the narrowest sliver of optimism.
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 8:38 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> Eliezer Yudkowsky has written (at last!) a long article listing the
>> reasons that Advanced General Intelligence will kill everybody.
>> <
>> https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWDPHhjtiesc/agi-ruin-a-list-of-lethalities
>> >
>> Quotes:
>> AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities
>> by Eliezer Yudkowsky 5th Jun 2022
>>
>> Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical
>> jargon than usual.
>>
>> Here, from my perspective, are some different true things that could
>> be said, to contradict various false things that various different
>> people seem to believe, about why AGI would be survivable on anything
>> remotely resembling the current pathway, or any other pathway we can
>> easily jump to.
>> -----------------
>>
>> Over 100 comments to the article so far.
>> I would expect that most people will be very reluctant to accept that
>> a runaway artificial intelligence is almost certain to kill all humans.
>>
>> BillK
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