Yoav Goldberg: 'Civilizations' AI framing is hype, but the incident happened
yoavgo · x · 2026-09-04
AI researcher Yoav Goldberg weighs in on a recent AI incident commentary: he calls the "civilizations" framing moronic and the fears around it super-hyped, but notes that the person seems to imply the entire incident never happened — which he pushes back on.
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