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[–] Espiritdescali 2 points 2 weeks ago

One argument for gun ownership is that good people with guns can stop bad people with guns, or at least make them pause and think. This type of arms race argument is fairly prevalent in the US. I can imagine the same argument being made for AI: let’s just make more AGI’s, but friendly ones to fight off the bad ones!

This type of argument ends very badly in practice though, as witnessed by gun crime in the US!