longer answer: in my view, Baum 2020 is my favorite reading recommendation to kick off a framing of the problem, though it doesn’t address totalitarianism in particular nor threats of specific players on the game board.
Related topic: see Bostrom’s vulnerable world hypothesis (VWH), which frames a debate about xrisk as a possible moral case for restricting freedoms. A criticism that floats around is that VWH was irresponsible to publish because a nasty government could point to it as a rationalization for actions they wanted to take anyway.
short answer: yes I do worry.
longer answer: in my view, Baum 2020 is my favorite reading recommendation to kick off a framing of the problem, though it doesn’t address totalitarianism in particular nor threats of specific players on the game board.
Related topic: see Bostrom’s vulnerable world hypothesis (VWH), which frames a debate about xrisk as a possible moral case for restricting freedoms. A criticism that floats around is that VWH was irresponsible to publish because a nasty government could point to it as a rationalization for actions they wanted to take anyway.
Thank you for pointing me to the Baum article! Will take a read.