Do general-purpose robots meaningfully increase ASI takeover risk?
Recently, I’ve been thinking about the implications of a world where general-purpose robots are developed before AGI. (In such a world, I imagine, trillions of robots would permeate society, replace factory workers, work in homes, etc.)One implication could be increased AI takeover risk. Intuitively, widespread robots might make takeover substantially easier for a variety of reasons, such as by giving a ASI readily available physical actors and making it easier to secure datacenters / other phys...
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