AI risk skepticism
AI risk skepticism is skepticism about arguments that advanced artificial intelligence poses a catastrophic or existential risk.
Further reading
Bergal, Asya & Robert Long (2019) Conversation with Robin Hanson, AI Impacts, November 13.
Garfinkel, Ben (2019) How sure are we about this AI stuff?, Effective Altruism Forum, February 9.
Vinding, Magnus (2017/2022) A Contra AI FOOM Reading List.
David Thorstad’s series on exaggerating AI risk.
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