{"id":22908,"date":"2026-03-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=22908"},"modified":"2026-03-03T07:07:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:07:38","slug":"the-most-realistic-ai-worst-case-scenario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/the-most-realistic-ai-worst-case-scenario\/","title":{"rendered":"The most realistic AI worst-case scenario"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SZFhFGpDWGw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it comes to AI, there are a lot of crazy doomsday scenarios floating around out there\u2014just like there are a lot of pie-in-the-sky, utopian visions of an AI-dominated future. But while nobody knows exactly what the future will bring, I think most of these projections are totally wrong. Instead, I think that AI will neither save us nor doom us\u2014but it will completely change us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With that in mind, I thought I would share this discussion of AI, which is one of the most grounded and realistic discussions of the subject that I&#8217;ve heard. It&#8217;s also one of the most insightful. We&#8217;ve created a technology that we barely understand, but it&#8217;s still just a new technology, not a savior or an antichrist. In a hundred years, when our great-grandchildren understand this technology and take it for granted, they will probably laugh at how we thought of it (assuming, of course, that Yudkowsky and Soares are wrong, and we aren&#8217;t all exterminated by a superintelligent AI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to AI, there are a lot of crazy doomsday scenarios floating around out there\u2014just like there are a lot of pie-in-the-sky, utopian visions of an AI-dominated future. But while nobody knows exactly what the future will bring, I think most of these projections are totally wrong. Instead, I think that AI will&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/the-most-realistic-ai-worst-case-scenario\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The most realistic AI worst-case scenario<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,457,2465,1866,1712,2468,1794,2466,2467,487],"class_list":["post-22908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andrew-klavan","tag-current-events","tag-eliezer-yudkowsky","tag-end-of-the-world","tag-generative-ai","tag-george-d-montanez","tag-long-form-podcasts","tag-nate-soares","tag-stephen-meyer","tag-technological-singularity","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-5Xu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22945,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22908\/revisions\/22945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}