Anyone who claims AI is going to kill us I just assume is either an idiot, not k...

0xDEAFBEAD · 2026-09-21T01:21:27 1789953687

See

https://aistatement.com/work/statement-on-ai-extinction-risk

https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/

Obviously many of these signatories are brilliant and knowledgeable. So that leaves some sort of investment hype. But AI stocks didn't increase in the days after the Coxon coverage; if anything the opposite. You just don't get rich by telling people that your product is going to kill everyone. Cigarette manufacturers insisted the opposite for ages. Jensen complains the AI doom talk is discouraging investment: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-sa...

fbrncci · 2026-09-21T01:04:50 1789952690

That’s an even more ridiculous take to have.

ronnier · 2026-09-21T01:03:50 1789952630

Every few years there’s a new thing that’s going to kill is all. Here we are. This is the new thing.

bamboozled · 2026-09-21T01:05:10 1789952710

The thing that scares me more than any "tech" is runaway climate change. The feedback loops. We've pushed things really far into the red.

infinite_spin · 2026-09-21T01:08:55 1789952935

It could be argued that "tech" directly led to climate change, e.g. https://www.history.com/articles/industrial-revolution-clima...

bamboozled · 2026-09-21T04:00:02 1789963202

I get that but I mean, what we've put in motion already.