Flo Crivello: A 10% AI Extinction Risk Is Unacceptably High and Under-Discussed
Flo Crivello · What AI and LEGO Have in Common | Flo Crivello on TBPN April 7th · Apr 10, 2025 · at 22:34
Flo Crivello, founder and CEO of Lindy, discusses his personal P(Doom) and reactions to casual tech industry debates on catastrophic AI risk.
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“Look, even if it was low, like, 10%, that's unacceptably high. If you listen to the Dwarcush podcast on EI 20, 27, that's the part, I love Dwarcush, I love the podcast, but that's the part where I'm like, what? At some point they talk about Pidoum, and one guy is like, yeah, I'm 70%, and the other guy is like, I'm an optimist, I'm only 20%, and then they move on. I'm like, can we spend the whole conversation talking about the fact that, like, very credible, very smart people who spent a lot of time thinking about this literally think that there's a 20% chance that we, as a civilization, go extinct in 10 years. Like, I'm terrified. I think it's very under discussed.”
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