The extinction argument in ‘If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies’
A critical post challenges Yudkowsky and Soares’s ice-cube analogy, arguing that predicting superintelligence is not like knowing ice will melt in hot water.
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A critic portrays Yudkowsky and Soares’s ‘If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies’ as dogma rather than a persuasive argument. According to the post, the book argues that building artificial superintelligence with anything like today’s techniques and understanding would kill everyone—not merely risk doing so. The critic disputes that confidence and argues that increasingly useful and steerable AI models have not shifted Yudkowsky’s conclusion.
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The extinction argument in ‘If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies’
A critical post challenges Yudkowsky and Soares’s ice-cube analogy, arguing that predicting superintelligence is not like knowing ice will melt in hot water.