Why AI Safety Is Not Pascal's Mugging
Robert Miles AI Safety · Explainer · 14 min · 2019 · YouTube title: Is AI Safety a Pascal's Mugging?
Why it's here
HN points to it as a reasoned rebuttal to the claim that AI risk is just Pascal's wager.
What it covers
Robert Miles examines whether the case for AI safety is a Pascal's mugging, a tiny probability of an enormous payoff. He argues it is not, because AI risk does not depend on vanishingly small probabilities.