[AGI] is not a national security issue of the form ‘exciting new tech that can give a country an economic or military advantage’; it’s a national security issue of the form ‘we’ve found a way to build a doomsday device, and as soon as anyone starts building it the clock is ticking on how long before they make a fatal error and take themselves out, and take the rest of the world out with them’.

— Rob Bensinger (2024)

Bensinger, R. (2024, June 6). Response to Aschenbrenner’s “Situational Awareness”. LessWrong. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Yig9oa4zGE97xM2os/response-to-aschenbrenner-s-situational-awareness