Existential Risk
Domain: Safety & Ethics
🎯 Motivation
Theoretical long-term risk that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. Debated but taken seriously by researchers.
📋 Concrete Example
Concern: a superintelligent AI with goals misaligned with human survival could be catastrophic. Mitigation: alignment research, safety frameworks, international cooperation.
🔗 Analogy
Nuclear weapons - they pose an existential risk to humanity. We manage it with treaties, safeguards, and monitoring. Existential AI risk is managed similarly: research, rules, cooperation.