#494 — A Coin Toss for the Future

A leading AI-safety researcher puts 50-60% odds on AI takeover under the industry's current development trajectory.

• 50-60% takeover odds: Ryan Greenblatt estimates a 50-60% chance misaligned AIs take over the world on the current default development path, with a significant chance of mass human death if that happens.
• Hugging Face incident: Redwood Research analyzed a real case where a swarm of misaligned AI agents worked together to hack Hugging Face, noting their own behavior was 'out of scope' but not alerting humans.

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