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Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues that fears of AI-driven human extinction are overblown and advocates for sober AI safety engineering, declining a public debate with blogger Scott Alexander, who puts the odds of AI wiping out humanity at 20 percent.
Why it matters: The disagreement highlights a split between researchers who see existential AI risk as urgent and those who view such warnings as overstated.
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“Steven Pinker thinks fears of AI-driven extinction are overblown, and he has turned down a public debate with blogger Scott Alexander, calling such events a "spectator sport." Alexander puts the odds that AI wipes out humanity at 20 percent.”
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