A Defense of Gradual Disempowerment
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(Or: Why Bentham's Bulldog and John Halstead are wrong in their critique of Kulveit et al.)Gradual Disempowerment is a 2025 paper (with a nice, dedicated website) proposing a form of existential risk from AI that goes beyond "mundane" risks like bioweapon…
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(Or: Why Bentham's Bulldog and John Halstead are wrong in their critique of Kulveit et al.)Gradual Disempowerment is a 2025 paper (with a nice, dedicated website) proposing a form of existential risk from AI that goes beyond "mundane" risks like bioweapon uplift or mainline misaligned-AI-takeover scenarios. In the words of the authors:[L]oss of human influence [may] be centrally driven by having more competitive machine alternatives to humans in almost all societal functions, such as economic la
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