AI Existential Risk

An AI Existential Risk is a technological existential risk that is a catastrophic risk from artificial general intelligence potentially causing human extinction or permanent civilization collapse.

• AKA: AGI Existential Risk, Artificial Intelligence Existential Risk, AI X-Risk.
• Context:
  • It can typically challenge Human Progress Measure assumptions about technological benefits.
  • It can typically require Enlightenment Ideal-based approaches for risk governance.
  • It can often generate Technological Optimism Attitudes or Fatalism Attitudes.
  • It can often compare to Nuclear War Risk and Climate Change Problem in existential threat level.
  • It can range from being a Near-term AI Existential Risk to being a Long-term AI Existential Risk, depending on its timeline estimate.
  • It can range from being a Accidental AI Existential Risk to being a Deliberate AI Existential Risk, depending on its causation mode.
  • It can range from being a Gradual AI Existential Risk to being a Sudden AI Existential Risk, depending on its emergence speed.
  • It can range from being a Preventable AI Existential Risk to being a Inevitable AI Existential Risk, depending on its mitigation possibility.
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• Examples:
  • AI Capability Risks, such as:
    • Superintelligence Risk from intelligence explosion.
    • Recursive Self-Improvement Risk from AI enhancement.
  • AI Alignment Risks, such as:
    • Value Misalignment Risk from goal specification error.
    • Instrumental Convergence Risk from resource competition.
  • AI Deployment Risks, such as:
    • AI Arms Race Risk from competitive pressure.
    • AI Governance Failure Risk from regulatory inadequacy.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Narrow AI Risk, which involves limited domain impact.
  • AI Bias Risk, which causes discrimination rather than extinction.
  • AI Unemployment Risk, which affects economy rather than survival.
• See: Catastrophic Risk, Nuclear War Risk, Pandemic Risk, Climate Change Problem, Artificial General Intelligence, Technological Optimism Attitude, Existential Risk.

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