Exactly. Just like how the world vetoed atom bombs from existence instead of making 12,000 of them.

Not counting tests, we haven't seen one in action in over 80 years. If we could practice this level of caution with AI, that would be a great start.

	▲	saulpw 40 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		We still have hundreds of nuclear power plants worldwide! There have been some terrible accidents but overall the consequences of nuclear power are much less than fossil fuel electricity generation. And some people wish we hadn't nerfed our ability to build nuclear power plants through over-regulation. Now of course we shouldn't completely deregulate nuclear power either. As in all things, the middle way.
	▲	joquarky an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That's because we built very fast computers to simulate them.