Ideas By Otto Barten November 15, 2024 7:11 AM EST Otto Barten is director of the Existential Risk Observatory , a nonprofit aiming to reduce existential risk by informing the public debate. T echnological progress can excite us, politics can infuriate us, and wars can mobilize us. But faced with the risk of human extinction that the rise of artificial intelligence is causing, we have remained surprisingly passive. In part, perhaps this was because there did not seem to be a solution. This is