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georgemcbaylast Monday at 6:34 PM1 replyview on HN

> And yet the world hasn’t ended.

...yet

But we only need things to spiral out of control one time for that to change.

The world as we understand it would have ended if Vasily Arkhipov didn't veto the decision to launch a sub nuke during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Is an emotionless AI system in his place ever going to make the same decision he did?

How confident are you we won't put an AI system in his place, particularly when we have to assume if we don't others will?


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drivebyhootinglast Monday at 7:19 PM

Sounds like your fear is not of artificial intelligence but artificial incompetence. That’s a very different position from the AI doomers.