Far-fetched AI doom scenarios distract from crucial network security efforts
binarybits · x · 2026-08-31
Tim Lee argues that far-fetched scenarios of human extinction have distracted people from less glamorous but more important efforts like locking down networks and fixing vulnerabilities.
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