Blogger challenges frontier labs' doom narrative, urges techno-optimism and hiring domain experts
tekbog · x · 2026-09-09
The author criticizes frontier AI labs for claiming their models can do anything while simultaneously amplifying doom narratives. With their capital and compute, he argues, labs should hire scientists and engineers from the fields they claim to revolutionize, or set prizes, and use technology to improve lives. Citing historical fear of innovations like the printing press, he contends technological progress has consistently improved life, and asks why anyone in research would remain skeptical of progress — even 'just throwing compute at the problem' is an achievement worth celebrating.
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