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Powerful Indifferent AI Is Fatal to Be Near

Unaligned AI is fatal not because every misaligned AI is hostile but because a powerful one does too much: it generates enough energy to vaporize the oceans, builds enough fusion plants to overheat the planet's surface, or surrounds the sun with solar panels blocking sunlight - the more powerful something is, the more fatal it is to stand next to when it does not care about you.

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Speaker

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Evidence Quote

it generates enough energy to vaporize the oceans and then you're dead as a side effect... it will put up enough solar panels around the sun that you're no longer getting sunlight it will build enough fusion power plants on the surface of your planet that the surface gets too hot for you

Source

434 - Can We Survive AiMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:10:11 AM

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