Inside the Culture of Putting a Number on AI Doom

Journalist Sharon Goldman investigates the people, institutions, and ideas behind p(doom) culture, tracing how extinction-risk probabilities from a decades-old rationalist community became central to AI debates, with forecaster Lifland estimating a 67% chance of AI takeover without slowdown.

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