If We Build It, Everyone Lives
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Technologies like nuclear power, fly-by-wire aviation and AI do not exist in hermetic terrariums of optimism. I don't agree with the AI doomers either, but at the very least I am willing to play by the hypothetical idea that AI proliferation could be dangerous. After all, many things we take for granted today (eg. nuclear power, fly-by-wire aviation, AI) are dual-use technologies also employed to kill ordinary civilians.