Domingos and Scott Alexander Debate AI Doom
Pedro Domingos argued LLMs at inference are ordinary programs with no goals or consciousness, dismissing AI doom scenarios, while Scott Alexander countered that bad objectives learned in training would still be executed.
2026-10-07 ~ 2026-10-08 · 3 related posts
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- Pedro Domingos: LLMs Don't Learn Goals in Training, They Learn to Achieve Ours — pmddomingos · 2026-10-08