Utilitarians at AI companies imagine a cosmos filled with blissful AIs. They might risk human extinction to achieve it.

Public-key encryption keeps your messaging and web browsing private, but it depends on shaky math assumptions. AI-powered math might break it.

Several US states have moved to ban AI legal status and reject the possibility of AI consciousness. We should keep our options open instead.

Society is not prepared for a flood of agents. We need new protocols and standards, such as Agent ID, to make agents accountable to our legal and financial systems.

For years, the federal government has required insurers to price hypothetical terrorist attacks. It should run the same exercise for the most severe AI risks.

As AI makes legal work significantly cheaper, the burden on courts may increase. Some areas of law could see precedent shift faster as a result.

New EU and California laws require AI companies, and eventually camera makers, to sign their media outputs. It’s our best chance to tell what’s real.

If AI reaches the point where it can do the cognitive work humans do, robots will proliferate. Standard data on US industry implies a fully automated economy could double its output roughly every year, with no further breakthroughs required.

Skeptics of an AI slowdown deal with China say we’d need futuristic tech to make it cheat-proof. Instead, the US and China could just give auditors comprehensive access to major AI companies.