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A Guide to the AI Safety Debate After Sam Altman’s Ouster
Artificial intelligence can be dangerous, but it can also help us reduce the many existential risks we already face.
Worries about AI have felled OpenAI’s co-founder.
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When it comes to artificial intelligence, one of the most commonly debated issues in the technology community is safety — so much so that it has helped lead to the ouster of OpenAI's co-founder Sam Altman, according to Bloomberg News.
And those concerns boil down to a truly unfathomable one: Will AI kill us all? Allow me to set your mind at ease: AI is no more dangerous than the many other existential risks facing humanity, from supervolcanoes to stray asteroids to nuclear war.