Is AI Safety a Pascal's Mugging?
Robert Miles AI Safety · 3 HN recommendations
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Robert Miles examines whether the case for AI safety is a Pascal's mugging, a tiny probability of an enormous payoff. He argues it is not, because AI risk does not depend on vanishingly small probabilities.
Why HN recommends it: HN points to it as a reasoned rebuttal to the claim that AI risk is just Pascal's wager.
“the main point of the video is that kind of situation happens when the probability involved is vanishingly small” Read on HN ↗