Is AI Doom Talk a Corporate PR Scam? shashj Counters: You'd Have to Believe in a Massive Researcher Conspiracy
birchlse · x · 2026-09-09
Responding to the claim that AI extinction warnings are a PR game, shashj argues the conspiracy framing is incoherent: it requires believing that numerous outspoken, idealistic junior researchers have long been all in on systematically pumping out alarmist propaganda about their own product. The quoted leninology takes the opposite view, saying AI techbros have spent a decade using doomerism as PR to signal their models' power. A representative exchange in the AI safety belief wars.
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