About whether misaligned AI harm would come too late to recover from.
Has this happened?
Yes 5 (5%)Not sure 10 (9%)No 96 (86%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether misaligned AI harm would come too late to recover from.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I don't think so.
A very large part of the total AI risk in my view comes from selfreplication/physical independence, and that still seems decades away.
But deaths caused directly/indirectly by rogue AI could happen much earlier.