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   - "economic forces push humans out of every cognitive loop where output quality is independently verifiable because human-in-the-loop is a cost that competitive markets eliminate"
   - "delegating critical infrastructure development to AI creates civilizational fragility because humans lose the ability to understand maintain and fix the systems civilization depends on"
   - "AI lowers the expertise barrier for engineering biological weapons from PhD-level to amateur which makes bioterrorism the most proximate AI-enabled existential risk"
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 # Updated thoughts on AI risk
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 Economic forces as alignment mechanism: wherever AI output quality is verifiable, markets eliminate human oversight. Human-in-the-loop preserved only where quality is hardest to measure.
 
 Source PDF: ~/Desktop/Teleo Codex - Inbox/Noahopinion/Gmail - Updated thoughts on AI risk.pdf
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+## Key Facts
+- Noah Smith shifted from 2023 AI optimism to increased concern about existential risk by February 2026
+- o3 scored 43.8% on virology practical tests versus human PhD 22.1%
+- Smith ranks AI risks: (1) bioterrorism highest, (2) Machine Stops scenario medium, (3) autonomous robot uprising lowest