View: Moderate doomerism is right about AI agent hacking and economic damage
binarybits · x · 2026-08-30
Timothy B. Lee responds to Jesse Singal, arguing that if "moderate doomerism" predicts "AI agents are going to hack a lot of people and cause billions of dollars in harms," then it is absolutely correct. He distinguishes these plausible中期 security risks from extreme human extinction probabilities.
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