If you think your AI work is Russian roulette for civilization, you're misanthropic
matanSF · x · 2026-09-10
Commenter matanSF argues: if you genuinely believe your work is effectively playing Russian roulette with the entire human civilization, and you proceed anyway, you are in a very literal sense a misanthropic person.
It's a familiar moral accusation in AI risk debates—calling out frontier lab researchers for perceived hypocrisy between claiming existential risk and continuing to advance the technology.
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