alt Hacker News> https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/...
it seems like people aren't even reading this RAND paper, just blindly appealing to it. it basically concludes that a fuck ton of damage can be done, but its unlikely every human will die as a result.
Actually reading it, it seems like they say both the geoengineering and pandemic pathways could cause human extinction, but that the AI would have to be doing it to kill us on purpose, not by accident.
That doesn't seem too comforting to me? I'm not sure what this article's author was expecting us to take away from it.