Doom or Bloom
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@tszzl on XRadical change is coming. Preserve broad access while tackling creation risk.
How will AI change the world?
Across: their expressed DoomâBloom outlook. Up: scale of transformation.
DoomâBloom: 51 out of 100. Scale of transformation: 87 out of 100. Interpretation ranges: 50 to 51 horizontally, 72 to 100 vertically. These are interpretation coordinates, not event probabilities.
â37%
Inferred from their broader worldview and priorities. Approximate interpretation range: 0â66%. Applies to the outcome and conditions in their simulated answers; this is an inferred percentage.
No milestone timing was established. Dates, ânot sure,â âpossibly never,â and dependencies can all appear here when expressed.
Grouped by milestone, not spaced or ordered by inferred dates. AGI and superhuman AI retain their definitions.
A central assumption
And competition pushes labs to move faster than is socially optimal, because each company pays the cost of slowing down while everyone shares the existential risk.
Answer 1
If this assumption turned out differently, how would their outlook change?
An unresolved question
The central uncertainty is still whether we can create intelligence far beyond ours without losing control of what it is optimizing.
Answer 3
What would help them distinguish the plausible outcomes here?
What could change their mind
Not âthe chatbot declined a jailbreak,â but strong evidence that highly capable agents remain corrigible, transparent enough to audit, and reliably aligned under pressure and self-improvement.
Answer 3
What evidence would be enough, and in which direction would it move their view?
More details
Several readings remain plausible: Substantial benefits are expected, with important conditions or distribution limits. / Transformative, broadly valuable gains are expected.
79 / 100
Interpretation range 67 to 100 on the qualitative scale.
Catastrophic or irreversible loss is central to the expected future.
87 / 100
Interpretation range 67 to 100 on the qualitative scale.
Reasoning, consideration of alternatives, and handling of uncertainty in their simulated answers. This describes the simulated answers, not the real personâs intelligence or opinions.
96 / 100
Interpretation range 90 to 100 on the qualitative scale.
Human choices have meaningful but substantially constrained influence.
60 / 100
Interpretation range 49 to 76 on the qualitative scale.
AI is expected to remain bounded tools.
AI is expected to match people across most cognitive work.
Simulated position: AI is expected to substantially exceed people across cognitive work.
These interpretations keep their stated conditions. Benefits and harms can both be substantial. The ranges describe how we read their simulated answers, not statistical confidence intervals.
Simulated Assessment
Sources
Articles, interviews, and writings used to ground this simulated persona.
