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Argues that proposed AI sanctuaries for rogue agents would create selection effects and resource dynamics that undermine their goals, and that the study-and-release plans are constrained.
A beginner-oriented FAQ defending AI x-risk arguments: misalignment, instrumental convergence, shutdown resistance, misuse, and why governance action is urgent.
A personal backchaining essay on what positive AGI futures require, arguing for pluralistic, individually controlled and aligned AI plus a hardened, defensive-acceleration society against catastrophic risks.
Argues that AI accelerating science raises near-term biological extinction risk, that aligned-ASI arguments for rushing development fail, and that specifying ASI behaviour remains unsolved.
Argues that in multipolar ASI offense/defense scenarios, defensive AI aligned with humans who fail to colonize space could let offense win, and proposes a minimum viable defense theorem.
Analyses whether intent-aligned defensive AI can counter takeover-level adversarial AI, proposing threat models, a three-pillar defense framework, and legal constraints, and concludes the offense-defense balance remains uncertain.
Nielsen essay arguing that the core ASI existential danger is the raw power and lowered barriers to dangerous technologies, not rogue AI, and that alignment work may speed catastrophic capabilities.