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A question about gradual disempowerment

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I’ve been reading a lot of AI safety research around gradual disempowerment, and I ended up writing about a question I haven’t been able to find addressed directly: What if the societal and institutional degradation that these models generally treat as a future consequence of AI dependence is alrea…

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  1. 2026-08-20 18:11 · r/singularity
    A question on gradual displacement
  2. 2026-08-20 17:45 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    A question about gradual disempowerment

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