The Dangerous Window
The growing distance between what AI can do and whether it knows it should
Putting aside the possibility that we could all end up eventually uploading our minds to the great cloud in the sky and have our simulated selves live on in perpetuity (until a solar flare hits), there’s no guarantee any of us make it out of here alive. We’ve been dealing with this fact as long as we’ve been evolving on planet Earth. It just so happens that we’re the only species acutely aware of our own mortality.