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I was blissfully enjoying some peace and quiet on vacation in Europe when I got the news that there’s a 10% chance AI will wipe out humanity in the next decade. I took it in stride because, well, I was pretty sure the pool of brown butter on top of the taleggio-studded polenta I inhaled in the Italian Alps was going to kill me first: