'Superintelligence Will Kill You' Post Sparks Pushback Over AI Doom Projection
yeastsplainer · x · 2026-09-04
A viral post accusing Anthropic and OpenAI of knowingly building lethal superintelligence — and demanding the companies be stopped — drew a notable rebuttal: the reply argues that 'it might kill you, it might save you,' and that certainty of AI doom is psychological projection, since the only proven killers obsessed with dominance and turf are primates, i.e., humans projecting disturbed minds onto a very different other. A representative exchange in the ongoing AI existential-risk debate.
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