Worlds where we solve AI alignment on purpose don't look like the world we live in

(Or: Why I don’t see how the probability of extinction could be less than 25% on the current trajectory) AI developers are trying to build superintelligent AI. If they succeed, there’s a high risk that the AI will kill everyone . The AI companies know this; they believe they can figure out how to align the AI so that it doesn’t kill us. Maybe we solve the alignment problem before superintelligent…