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=== Artificial intelligence ===

Alexander regularly wrote about advances in [[artificial intelligence]] and emphasized the importance of [[AI safety]] research.<ref>{{Citationcite book|last=Miller|first=James D.|titlechapter=Reflections on the Singularity Journey|date=2017|chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-662-54033-6_13|worktitle=The Technological Singularity|series=The Frontiers Collection|volume=|pages=223–228|editor-last=Callaghan|editor-first=Victor|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200909014324/https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-662-54033-6_13|place=Berlin, Heidelberg|publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-3-662-54033-6_13|isbn=978-3-662-54031-2|archive-date=9 September 2020|editor2-last=Miller|editor2-first=James|editor3-last=Yampolskiy|editor3-first=Roman|editor4-last=Armstrong|editor4-first=Stuart}}</ref>

In the long essay "Meditations On Moloch", he analyzes [[Game theory|game-theoretic]] scenarios of cooperation failure like the [[prisoner's dilemma]] and the [[tragedy of the commons]] that underlie many of humanity's problems and argues that AI risks should be considered in this context.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sotala|first=Kaj|date=2017|title=Superintelligence as a Cause or Cure for Risks of Astronomical Suffering|url=http://www.informatica.si/index.php/informatica/article/view/1877/1098|journal=Informatica|volume=41|pages=389–400|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220215810/http://www.informatica.si/index.php/informatica/article/view/1877/1098|archive-date=20 February 2020|via=}}