Talking about AI x-risk boosts concern over near-term harms, not distracts from them
gleech · x · 2026-09-06
The author pushes back on the smuggled assumption that pivoting to AI x-risk distracts from immediate harms. Citing evidence, he argues the opposite: discussing x-risk actually raises people's concern about near-term harms slightly more than talking about those harms directly — the two framings are complementary, not competing.
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