How AI could create the world’s biggest problems
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Published on May 5, 2026 4:16 PM GMT By: By Zershaaneh Qureshi | Published February 24th, 2026 This is a crosspost of the full text of How AI could create the world’s biggest problems from 80,000 Hours's website. Imagine you're living 15,000 years ago. Your people are hunter-gatherers and you sleep under the stars. If someone told you humans would one day build cities with millions of people, fly through the air, or carry all human knowledge in their pockets, you couldn't even begin to picture w