A Defense of Gradual Disempowerment

(Or: Why Bentham's Bulldog and John Halstead are wrong in their critique of Kulveit et al.)Gradual Disempowerment is a 2025 paper (with a nice, dedicated website) proposing a form of existential risk from AI that goes beyond "mundane" risks like bioweapon uplift or mainline misaligned-AI-takeover…