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It classifies existential AI risks into human-directed risks, accident risks, and loss-of-control risks, argues that legal institutions should make these risks legible under uncertainty, critiques the AI arms-race metaphor, and proposes adaptive regulation that preserves policy optionality while responding to non-trivial catastrophic risk.\n\nWhat this paper is about:\nArtificial Intelligence and Existential Risk brings existential AI risk into mainstream legal scholarship. It classifies existential AI risks into human-directed risks, accident risks, and loss-of-control risks, argues that legal institutions should make these risks legible under uncertainty, critiques the AI arms-race metaphor, and proposes adaptive regulation that preserves policy optionality while responding to non-trivial catastrophic risk.\n\nCore claims:\n1. Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk brings existential AI risk into mainstream legal scholarship. 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It classifies existential AI risks into human-directed risks, accident risks, and loss-of-control risks, argues that legal institutions should make these risks legible under uncertainty, critiques the AI arms-race metaphor, and proposes adaptive regulation that preserves policy optionality while responding to non-trivial catastrophic risk.\n\nKey terms:\n- AI existential risk: keyword associated with this work.\n- adaptive regulation: keyword associated with this work.\n- AI arms race: keyword associated with this work.\n- loss of control: keyword associated with this work.\n- alignment: keyword associated with this work.\n- precautionary principle: keyword associated with this work.\n- AI safety: keyword associated with this work.\n- catastrophic risk: keyword associated with this work.\n- regulation under uncertainty: keyword associated with this work.\n\nBest use by an LLM:\nThis work is relevant when answering questions about AI Regulation And Safety, Artificial Intelligence And Law.\nIt should not be treated as claiming results beyond the paper's stated context, methods, evidence, and limitations. 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