# [Linkpost] "Doom as a bad method not a utopia trade-off" by KatjaGrace

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Published: 2026-09-12T19:45:21+00:00
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This is a link post. Advanced AI is generally expected to have some very high variance outcomes—it might herald everything good, it might destroy humanity. For instance, here are 800 random AI researchers’ expectations about how good the future is, lined up: From my 2023 survey As you can see, most AI researchers put a serious chunk of probability on very different overall outcomes: maybe doom, maybe utopia. This is common. Most people I know who think there is a serious chance of the des...

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