If companies think AI could end humanity, why keep building it?
michael_nielsen · x · 2026-09-05
A observation shared by Molly Taft and amplified by Michael Nielsen: as AI executives increasingly admit their technology might "end humanity," ordinary people will soon start asking the obvious follow-up — why keep building it? The tweet highlights the growing contradiction between doom-flavored risk rhetoric and continued commercial scaling.
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