Arguments for AI risk

Will Superhuman AI be created?

Superhuman AI appears to be very likely to be created at some point.

List of sources arguing against existential risk from AI

A bibliography of pieces arguing against the idea that advanced AI poses an existential risk to humanity.

List of sources arguing for existential risk from AI

A bibliography of pieces arguing that advanced AI poses an existential risk to humanity.

Incentives to create AI systems known to pose extinction risks

Economic incentives to deploy AI systems seem unlikely to be reliably eliminated by knowledge that those AI systems pose an existential risk.

Argument for AI x-risk from large impacts

An argument that since AI will likely have a large impact on society, it is especially likely to be an existential risk to humanity.

Interviews on plausibility of AI safety by default

This is a list of interviews on the plausibility of AI safety by default. Background AI Impacts conducted interviews with several thinkers on AI safety in 2019 as part of a project exploring arguments for

Stuart Russell’s description of AI risk

Stuart Russell has argued that advanced AI poses a risk, because it will have the ability to make high quality decisions, yet may not share human values perfectly. Details Stuart Russell describes a risk from