Debate Erupts Over AI Existential Risk as Top Researchers' Warnings Resurface

Users on X pushed back against engineer Bryan Cantrill's dismissal of AI extinction risk, noting that the three most-cited AI researchers have all publicly warned of existential danger, with some citing Turing's 1951 prediction that machines would surpass and potentially control humans.

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