Dev Warns: US Politicians Are Riding the AI-Doom Hype Wave Against Actual Scientific Consensus
kuchaev · x · 2026-09-10
The author argues no accepted scientific consensus exists — unlike climate change — that AI's extinction probability is even 0.01%, while the real consensus is that AI accelerates progress. He urges US politicians, especially Silicon Valley's representatives, to base legislation on what AI scientists actually believe, most of whom don't work for the two big labs.
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