causal

Weak incentive for AI to kill humans

Even in a takeover, the incentive to kill humans is quite weak because it is easy to marginalize humans and take their stuff without killing them, and the resources required for human survival are extremely low relative to AI industrialization; killing happens mainly from war, ecosystem destruction, or active threat-neutralization, not because humans' atoms are needed.

causalpending

Speaker

Paul Christiano

Evidence Quote

you could totally cripple human like, you could cripple humans warfighting capability and also take almost all their stuff while killing only a small fraction of humans, incidentally.

Source

Paul Christiano — Preventing an AI takeoverDwarkesh Patel Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:36:05 AM

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