ClaimsSam Altman

“A more probable scenario is that it simply doesn’t care about us much either way, but in an effort to accomplish some other goal (most goals, if you think about them long enough, could make use of resources currently being used by humans) wipes us out.”

Sam Altman, blog author February 2015 Machine intelligence, part 1 (Sam Altman's blog) archived copy

Prediction AI safety and alignment

A more probable scenario is that SMI, indifferent to humans, wipes them out while pursuing some other goal.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Reasoning

Speculative scenario with no horizon.

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Sam Altman, “A more probable scenario is that SMI, indifferent to humans, wipes them out while pursuing some other goal.” (said February 2015). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_a6c7d2cf4ca7, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_a6c7d2cf4ca7

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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