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AI Safety vs Other Existential Risks: Why Superintelligence Is the Meta-Problem
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Climate change could boil us alive in 100 years. But if superintelligence kills everyone in 5, climate change is no longer your problem. Get AI right and it solves everything. Get it wrong and nothing else matters.
People keep suggesting we can just unplug a dangerous AI. Yampolskiy's answer: try turning off Bitcoin. Try turning off a computer virus. Distributed systems can't be shut down — and a superintelligence will have already predicted your move and neutralised it.
