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by Emma_Goldman 1315 days ago
I have followed EA for ten years and there is absolutely no doubt that its most prominent voices - Will MacAskill, Nick Bostrom, Rob Wiblin, Eliezer Yudkowsky, not to mention Sam Bankman-Fried - ascribe enormous significance to AI. I myself have yet to see a compelling argument as to how AGI is possible, let alone dangerous.

If you look at 80,000 hours' list of 'most pressing problems', AI safety is first:

https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/

Open Phil has donated $250m to AI safety according to its website:

https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/potential-risks-advan...