Steven Pinker: why AI won't kill us—and his take on the value alignment problem
davidmanheim · x · 2026-09-08
davidmanheim shares an excerpt from Steven Pinker's "Existential Risks" chapter in Enlightenment Now, where Pinker argues AI won't kill us—neither as targets nor as collateral damage—and questions the so-called value alignment problem, adding context to Pinker's recent work on AI risk.
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