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Why did we get warning shots?

L5 · ResearcherOpinion & AnalysisLessWrong AI· 10/6/2026

Provides critical analysis of AI risk arguments for researchers evaluating existential threats.

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An outside analyst examines why AI warning shots occurred and argues that dismissing AI x-risk as sci-fi is becoming increasingly untenable.

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Cross-posted from https://padastra.substack.com/p/why-did-we-get-warning-shots?r=n2jpq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web I come from outside the EA / rationalist / LessWrong community. I would strongly prefer for AI to be a normal positive technology and to dismiss AI X-risk as a sci-fi scenario created by smart cultists who extrapolated a set of superficially reasonable (but probably subtly-incorrect) assumptions too far. Unfortunately, with the passage of time, it has become apparent that reali

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