AI Existential Risk ONLINE Discussion Group

NOTE: THIS IS HAPPENING ONLINE THROUGH A VIDEOCHAT ON THE PAUSEAI DISCORD SERVER. YOU'LL GET THE LINK ONCE YOU RSVP.

Join us for a peer group where we'll share strategies for emotionally grappling with the daunting possibility of existential risk.

In a recent interview about AI, researcher Geoffrey Hinton stated, “there’s a 10 percent chance these things will wipe out humanity in the next twenty years.”

Eliezer Yudkowsky is more direct: “I tell people they’re walking dead and a child conceived today will probably not live to grow up.”

These are scary projections, not unlike a doctor giving a terminal cancer diagnosis. How do we make sense of our daily lives with this looming threat to our existence?

I’m starting this group discussion to process the emotions that come with this prognosis, most prominently DENIAL.

Let’s take the experts at their word, and decide what it means for us and how we choose to live our lives going forward.

This isn’t meant to be a debate about timelines or who’s right or wrong. It’s a peer support group to help each other process the emotions of the scarily high probability of AI cutting our lives shorter than we expected.

In this first meeting, we’ll focus on the topic of--you guessed it--denial.
This will be facilitated by Ori Nagel who is trained in peer support by the SF Mental Health Association.

All are welcome.