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Domain6. Socioeconomic and EnvironmentalThe broad risk area this belongs to.
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"Exacerbating these problems is that faster scientific progress would make it even harder for governance to keep pace with the deployment of new technologies. When these technologies are especially powerful or dangerous, such as those discussed above, insufficient governance can magnify their harms.8 This is known as the pacing problem, and it is an issue that technology governance already faces [47], for a variety of reasons"
Domain6. Socioeconomic and Environmental
Subdomain6.5 > Governance failure
Entity3 - Other
Intent2 - Unintentional
Timing3 - Other
CategoryRisks from accelerating scientific progress
SubcategoryFaster scientific progress makes it harder for governance to keep pace with development
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Included resource
A Survey of the Potential Long-term Impacts of AI: How AI Could Lead to Long-term Changes in Science, Cooperation, Power, Epistemics and Values
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