Which is preferable: enslavement due to proprietary AI or civilizational collapse due to open source AI?
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resolved Jan 1
Enslavement due to proprietary AI
Civilizational collapse due to open source AI
Assume that there are only two possible outcomes to continued AI development:
Some company/government develops a sufficiently powerful AI and becomes a singleton, forever cementing its power over humanity.
Some sufficiently powerful open source model is used to kill a majority of people on Earth and to cause widespread civilizational collapse.
Which of these possible outcomes do you regard as preferable?
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