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Is AI an Existential Threat to Humanity? As artificial intelligence advances from a specialized tool used for work into an autonomous force, potentially operating at it's own direction, it challenges our fundamental understanding of control, agency, and human survival. Is the true danger a rogue superintelligence that bypasses human safeguards, or does the risk lie in our own reliance on systems we may no longer fully comprehend or govern? How do we balance the potential of AI to solve complex global crises with the possibility of existential risk?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-eliezer-yudkowsky.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckKWNRDd0OA
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/are-ai-existential-risks-real-and-what-should-we-do-about-them/