Grant Hawkins: Nobody's Painting a Positive Future Without AI Either
granawkins · x · 2026-09-04
Anthropic researcher Grant Hawkins pushes back on the claim that no one pairs AI with a positive future: for his money, no one paints a positive future without AI. He doesn't support banning it but finds it startling how often a hand-wavy "AI will fix it" serves as expert consensus.
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