A Week That Asked One Question: Who Decides How Much Risk Is Acceptable?
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In the span of days, the head of the International Monetary Fund likened artificial intelligence to a slow-moving tsunami reshaping the global workforce, the godfather of deep learning put the odds of AI ending human civilization somewhere between one-in-ten and one-in-five, and Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin warned that quantum-enabled AI could crack the cryptographic backbone of Bitcoin and every blockchain network built on similar mathematics.
Meanwhile, U.S. forces struck Iranian targets along the Strait of Hormuz just days before midterm elections, with diplomatic talks already stalled. The through-line connecting each story is a single question that kept resurfacing from entirely different directions: how much risk is acceptable, and who gets to decide?