Epistemic status -- sharing rough notes on an important topic because I don't think I'll have a chance to clean them up soon.

Summary

Suppose a human used AI to take over the world. Would this be worse than AI taking over? I think plausibly:

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Outline:

(00:12) Summary

(02:20) AGI is nicer than humans in expectation

(04:53) Conditioning on AI actually seizing power

(08:18) Conditioning on the human actually seizing power

(09:31) Other considerations

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First published:
January 10th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FEcw6JQ8surwxvRfr/human-takeover-might-be-worse-than-ai-takeover

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“Human takeover might be worse than AI takeover” by Tom Davidson

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