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AI researchers including Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, gave interviews saying superintelligence is 'exactly as dangerous as it sounds,' with Irving putting the chance of human extinction at about a coin flip.
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“"The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view," Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview.”
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