The doomers were right: AI biorisk warnings from 5 years ago are aging well
davidmanheim · x · 2026-09-06
davidmanheim reflects that those warning about AI bio-risk and threats to democracy five years ago were dismissed as "doomers" for saying significant risk could materialize this decade.
Those warnings are now holding up — yet the same community's concerns about larger threats are once again being dismissed. The post highlights a recurring pattern in AI safety discourse: early risk warnings get mocked first, vindicated later.
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