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How Could AI Eliminate Humanity? A Failure-Mode Analysis of Civilizational Risk

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Briefings

This article proposes a failure-mode framework for analyzing AI risks to human civilization, arguing that extinction does not require hostile intent but can result from autonomous misalignment, harmful human use, or organizational failure. The analysis identifies causal conditions and intermediate quantities for defensive research rather than operational procedures. Key findings include the distinction between capability, autonomy, and external access as factors determining risk severity, with the paper explicitly stating it is non-operational to avoid causing harm.

Key points

• The article identifies autonomous misalignment, harmful human use, organizational failure, and competitive deployment as distinct pathways for AI risk to human extinction.
• Risk severity depends on capability, autonomy, external access, persistence, institutional safeguards, and recovery capacity rather than consciousness or hostility.

Context and limitations

The analysis is non-operational and identifies intermediate quantities for research rather than providing procedures for causing harm. Coverage is limited to the abstract and initial framework description without empirical data or specific case studies.

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