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Why autonomous replicating agents are probably not an existential risk (on the contrary)

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In 2024, Charbel-Raphaël and Epiphanie published "We might be dropping the ball on Autonomous Replication and Adaptation", making the case that "Once there is an open-source ARA model or a leak of a model capable of generating enough money for its survival and reproduction and able to adapt to avoid detection and shutdown, it will be probably too late". It received a substantive reply by Richard Ngo, notably"The key issue is that AIs that do ARA will need to be operating at the fringes of human

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