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by dragonwriter 1084 days ago
A lot of the worst x-risk AI doomers are... selling AI (Altman at OpenAI being the most visible).

X-risk, of course, is leveraged as a powerful argument for regulation which narrows the field to a small number of favored firms which have privileged mutual relations with government, with a difficult on-ramp for anyone else, and minimum public transparency.