Survival by Swiss Cheese: Why AI Doom Is a Layered Failure, Not a Single Bet
Opening — Why this matters now Ever since ChatGPT escaped the lab and wandered into daily life, arguments about AI existential risk have followed a predictable script. One side says doom is imminent. The other says it’s speculative hand-wringing. Both sides talk past each other. The paper behind this article does something refreshingly different. Instead of obsessing over how AI might kill us, it asks a sharper question: how exactly do we expect to survive? Not rhetorically — structurally. ...