Nathan Lambert Debates Doom: AI Improving Training Software Doesn't Imply 'It Will Kill Us in N Years'
MoonL88537 · x · 2026-09-09
Nathan Lambert argues that while we have evidence AI agents are good at improving software used to train AI and LLMs can be superhuman in many domains, these do not combine into 'AI will be so powerful it will kill us in N years' — that forecasts inevitable saturation and unknown breakthroughs. A replier counters that the distinction between 'impossible' and 'negligibly unlikely' matters, and in the limit we are already there. A serious technical debate on self-improving AI risk.
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