Ben Todd on the AI Boom: 'AI Will Either Make Us Extremely Rich or End the World'
ben_j_todd · x · 2026-09-09
Quoting an observation that one of history's biggest stock market bonanzas is driven by an industry whose own employees and leading lights think it could cause human extinction, 80,000 Hours founder Ben Todd replies: "Yes AI will either make us extremely rich or end the world" — a one-line distillation of the tension between AI profit expectations and existential-risk warnings.
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