We Can Prevent AI Disaster Like We Prevented Nuclear Catastrophe

On 16th July 1945 the world changed forever. The Manhattan Project's'Trinity' test, directed by Robert Oppenheimer, endowed humanity for the first time with the ability to wipe itself out: an atomic bomb had been successfully detonated 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico. On 6th August 1945 the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and three days later, Nagasaki-- unleashing unprecedented destructive power. The end of World War II brought a fragile peace, overshadowed by this new, existential threat. While nuclear technology promised an era of abundant energy, it also launched us into a future where nuclear war could lead to the end of our civilization.