Daniel notes: This is a linkpost for Vitalik's post. I've copied the text below so that I can mark it up with comments.

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Special thanks to Balvi volunteers for feedback and review

In April this year, Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander and others released what they describe as "a scenario that represents our best guess about what [the impact of superhuman AI over the next 5 years] might look like". The scenario predicts that by 2027 we will have made superhuman AI and the entire future of our civilization hinges on how it turns out: by 2030 we will get either (from the US perspective) utopia or (from any human's perspective) total annihilation.

In the months since then, there has been a large volume of responses, with varying perspectives on how likely the scenario that they presented is. For example:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gyT8sYdXch5RWdpjx/ai-2027-responses
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PAYfmG2aRbdb74mEp/a-deep-critique-of-ai-2027-s-bad-timeline-models (see also: Zvi's response)
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