“AI unemployment and AI extinction are often the same” by KatjaGrace

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My sense is that people think of AI existential risk and AI unemployment as distinct issues. Some people are extremely concerned about extinction and perhaps even indifferent to total unemployment. Some people think of moderate AI unemployment as a realistic and concerning issue, and AI extinction as science fiction. I think of AI unemployment and AI extinction risk as basically the same issue, and in likely scenarios, happening together. At a very high level, I’d say the argument for human extinction from advanced AI is something like this: We’re going to make AI that can do everything better than humans We’re going to make that AI into agents that navigate the world independently and do what they want We are not going to make those AI agents want the right things The basic issue is that in the presence of more capable agents with different goals, humans are less able to get resources and influence, and direct them toward the humans’ goals. One way ‘losing power to more competent agents’ could look is that a surpassingly smart AI agent intentionally eradicates humanity. But killing everyone and controlling the world [...] --- First published: April 30th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6pAeKGbeCeDvpJaQw/ai-unemployment-and-ai-extinction-are-often-the-same --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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