“A “catastrophe” was defined as something that killed a mere 10% of the humans in the world, or around 800m people. (The second world war, by way of comparison, is estimated to have killed about 3% of the world’s population of 2bn at the time.) An “extinction”, on the other hand, was defined as an event that wiped out everyone with the possible exception of, at most, 5,000 lucky (or unlucky) souls.”
What are the chances of an AI apocalypse?
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/07/10/what-are-the-chances-of-an-ai-apocalypse
via Instapaper