The financial costs would be lower than wartime spending.
@RyanPGreenblatt Yes
@deepfates Why? (I'd guess misaligned AI takeover is a bit less likely than not; you seemingly strongly disagree?)
We could probably eliminate the vast majority of these issues with a sustained, decently directed, and collective effort roughly as large as WW2. But will we?
@RyanPGreenblatt I see that you're trying to calibrate probabilities to use rationality. I appreciate that. However, we are not a car
@deepfates When I say "roughly as large as WW2" I mean "political will roughly this high", costs would be lower.
TBC, you could reduce risk a lot with less will, but nearly eliminating risk seems to require a pretty big effort. (And we might do this! I think this is totally possible.)