AI — Societal Collapse
Dawn breaks over a silent suburb. The streets are tidy and the homes well-kept, but an eerie stillness hangs in the air.
This group examines long-term and systemic questions raised by artificial intelligence, including governance, concentration of power, instability, and uncertain future capabilities.
Dawn breaks over a silent suburb. The streets are tidy and the homes well-kept, but an eerie stillness hangs in the air.
A coastal city lies in darkness for twenty-seven minutes. The outage began when an AI managing the regional power grid went offline for an update.
In the first years of intelligent machines at scale, many observers imagined a single decisive breakthrough. The picture was neat and even comforting in a grim way: one entity would win the race to…
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