Yishan(@yishan):This is why I think “we’ll just get ASI and tell the AI to solve climate change for us” is the most likely way a Real Paperclip Maximizer scenario manifests: the AI concludes that human civilization is the main cause of climate change and deletes it.

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2026.09.17 03:02

This is why I think “we’ll just get ASI and tell the AI to solve climate change for us” is the most likely way a Real Paperclip Maximizer scenario manifests: the AI concludes that human civilization is the main cause of climate change and deletes it.