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An Irish Times column argues that fears of AI bringing the end of the world echo older doomsday warnings about powerful technologies, from dynamite to nuclear weapons.
Why it mattersThe column cites Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger’s estimate of a greater than 10 per cent chance that future AI systems could kill everyone within a decade, while noting that he said current risks remained low. It is an argument about how to weigh existential risk, not new evidence about AI capabilities.
Discuss: Are comparisons with past technologies a useful check on AI fears, or do they risk making a genuinely new danger sound familiar?
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