Pedro Domingos: AI is an augmentation of human intelligence, not an alien mind
examachine · x · 2026-09-08
Pedro Domingos argued that AI is not an alien intelligence with a will of its own but an augmentation of human intelligence, urging people to internalize this framing. A responder pushed back, claiming they are actively building exactly that "alien intelligence," reflecting the ongoing debate over whether LLMs are extensions of human knowledge or qualitatively alien minds.
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