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Existential Risk from AI:

A new essay by mathematician alkjash, posted on LessWrong on August 1, 2026, argues that existential risk from artificial intelligence is a pressing concern that mathematicians should engage with, presenting formal arguments and probabilistic reasoning to quantify the threat. The essay, titled 'Existential Risk from AI: An Exposition for Mathematicians,' aims to bridge the gap between mathematical rigor and AI safety discourse, urging the mathematical community to contribute to mitigating potential catastrophic outcomes.

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Existential Risk from AI:
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x This website requires javascript to properly function. Consider activating javascript to get access to all site functionality. LESSWRONG LW Login Existential Risk from AI: An Exposition for Mathematicians — LessWrong AI Personal Blog 14 Existential Risk from AI: An Exposition for Mathematicians by alkjash 1st Aug 2026 1 min read 0 14 This is a linkpost for https://alkjash.github.io/ai-risk/ 0 Comments 0 New Comment Submit Moderation Log More from alkjash View more Curated and popular this week

source & further reading
lesswrong.com — original article Mathematicians may be worried, but AI-for-science is going to be great, recursively self-improving, and we’re going to learn loads Confirming Claims of Superposition and Adversarial Examples in Toy Models Bayeswatch: a Retrospective
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