Existential risk from AI and orthogonality: Can we have it both ways?

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This is an open access article under the terms of the Creat ive Commo ns Attri butio nNonCo mmerc ialNoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is noncommercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. © 2021 The Authors. Ratio published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 1Faculty of IE/IS, Philosophy and Ethics Group, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands 2School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, Interdisciplinary Ethics Applied (IDEA) Centre, University of Leeds, Leeds, England 3The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK