Making the same preparations as I have for every other prediction of apocalypse in my 62 years: none.
Read up on the long history of wrong predictions of existential threats. When I was a kid in school we practiced for nuclear bombs by crawling under our desks. Of course anything might happen, and so-called AI will have unknown effects, but we’re probably more likely to see more fraud and advertising than the collapse of democratic civilization.
I’ll watch Doomsday Preppers for the entertainment of seeing people center their lives and the lives of their families around unlikely events and unpredictable effects.
Good to see Henry Kissinger talking about existential threats, something he has personal experience with. I’m writing this from Saigon, a place with first-hand experience of Kissinger’s expertise.
Read up on the long history of wrong predictions of existential threats. When I was a kid in school we practiced for nuclear bombs by crawling under our desks. Of course anything might happen, and so-called AI will have unknown effects, but we’re probably more likely to see more fraud and advertising than the collapse of democratic civilization.
I’ll watch Doomsday Preppers for the entertainment of seeing people center their lives and the lives of their families around unlikely events and unpredictable effects.
Good to see Henry Kissinger talking about existential threats, something he has personal experience with. I’m writing this from Saigon, a place with first-hand experience of Kissinger’s expertise.