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• Computers have already surpassed human abilities in many fields. These systems however are trained to do only one thing
• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a computer system that is as good or better than humans across a wide range of tasks
• AGI would be incredibly powerful / useful, so a handful of large corporations and governments are already pursuing AGI research
• Given current AI systems are far from perfect, we shouldn’t assume much more powerful, complicated AGI systems will automatically be safe
• Many of the likely risks are scaled-up versions of issues we already see today, which could have serious impacts given the power of AGI
• There is work that can be done to reduce these risks